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Park and Carroll Street, Paterson, NJ

Freed From State Prison, Ex-Con Facing Other Counts Is Charged With Another Paterson Shooting Freed From State Prison, Ex-Con Facing Other Counts Is Charged With Another Paterson Shooting
Freed From State Prison, Ex-Con Facing Other Counts Is Charged With Another Paterson Shooting Barely four months after being released from state prison on a gun conviction, a two-strikes ex-con was charged with shooting a man on a Paterson street. Authorities snatched up 25-year-old Ruddy Mena on Tuesday in connection with a shooting in the area of Park and Carroll Street the afternoon before. The 21-year-old victim went to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson to be treated for a gunshot wound before police arrived, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint release Wednesday. An investigation quickly pegged Mena as…