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Daughter of nj poet killed { August 14 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uspoet143413925aug14,0,3593085.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-print http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uspoet143413925aug14,0,3593085.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-print Daughter of N.J. Poet, Friend, Killed THE ASSOCIATED PRESS August 14, 2003 New Brunswick, N.J. - The daughter of New Jersey's deposed poet laureate Amiri Baraka and her friend have been shot to death, authorities said yesterday. The bodies of Shani Baraka, 31, and Rayshon Holmes, 30, were discovered Tuesday night in the Piscataway home that Shani Baraka shared with her sister, said Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan. Both were shot several times in the head and body, Kaplan said. Police were searching for Shani Baraka's brother-in-law, whose name is James Coleman but who also goes by Ibn El-Amin Pasha, Kaplan said. Coleman is the estranged husband of Wanda Pasha, Shani Baraka's sister. Amiri Baraka, in a telephone interview from his Newark home, said Wanda Pasha made at least 12 domestic violence complaints against Coleman, from whom she separated in February. "This guy is a crazy person," Amiri Baraka said of Coleman, adding that Wanda was in Las Vegas at the time of the shootings. Kaplan, who described Coleman as a "transient" who stayed mostly in the Newark area, said a restraining order was issued against Coleman on April 27 but was never served because he had no address. Shani Baraka was a teacher at Vailsburg Middle School in Newark and the assistant basketball coach at Malcolm X Shabazz High School in Newark, her father said. Holmes was a single mother of an 8-year-old boy. Amiri Baraka's post as poet laureate was eliminated last month after he wrote a poem suggesting that Israel had advance knowledge of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Copyright © 2003, Newsday, Inc.

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