One Fateful Night
At approximately 2:30 a.m. on 17 June 1966, two men walked into the Lafayette Grill in Paterson, New Jersey, and began shooting. The bartender and one customer were killed immediately, and another customer died from severe injuries around a month later.
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Rubin Carter and a man named John Artis were arrested by police after eyewitnesses described the attackers as two black men driving a car similar to Carter’s. The following year, after being tried and convicted, both Carter and Artis were found guilty of the murders, which were widely reported as being racially motivated.