article_snippet: Isaiah Williams, a 22-year-old forward and junior at Iona College, says A young man who is torn between  the rough streets of his hometown and a bright future as a basketball star has lost 24 of A young man who is torn between  the rough streets of his hometown and a bright future as a basketball star friends and loved ones to violence in a section of Newark, New Jersey, called The Jungle.
article_snippet: Isaiah Williams, (left) 22, grew up in a section of Newark known for gang crime and has grieved for 24 friends that died due to gun violence .
highlights_snippet: Isaiah Williams, 22, grew up in Oscar Miles Village in Newark, NJ .
  