A judge yesterday sentenced a 22-year-old East Orange man to at least 70 years in prison for bludgeoning to death a New Jersey Institute of Technology student and brutally beating two others.
Shaun Clifton-Short was sentenced to life plus 15 years for the murder as well as 37 years in prison for beating, with a hammer, a counterman and cleanup worker at a Dunkin’ Donuts the next day in East Orange.
On Jan. 31, 2007, Clifton-Short and his cousin, Anthony Short, 20, of Irvington, conspired to rob a Delta gas station in Orange during which Anant Kaura, a 22-year-old native of India, was struck 15 times in the face and head with a hammer, said Hilary Brunell, a chief assistant prosecutor.
In December, Clifton-Short was convicted of murder, felony murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, robbery, conspiracy and weapons offenses, according to the prosecutor’s office.
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