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“He will have to served every day of the three years,” defense attorney Robert N. Kalisch said of Jahad Jones (above, right)
Jones, overcome with emotion, told the judge that he regretted his actions.
“I’m sorry,” he said, choking back tears. “There’s nothing I can do to put it back. I will learn from it, and something good will come from it,” he said.
Jahlil Jones (above, left) got probation, meanwhile, along with their sister, Kanifa (obscured).
The incident began on Aug. 19, 2012 with a dispute over a possibly stolen cell phone and the teenage neighbor threatening the Jones family’s youngest brother, Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor Nicholas Ostuni said.
When Jahad Jones found out, “he went out and bought a gun,” Ostuni said in court Friday in Hackensack. “Then he came home and got his older brother.”
His brother went with him, the prosecutor said, “knowing full well what Jahad would do.”
The victim “immediately put his hands up and backed off,” Ostuni said.
If not for that, he said, “Jahad would probably have killed somebody, and he’d be standing here with his life ruined, facing a lot more serious consequences.”
Kanifa Jones showed up “at the tail-end of the incident, and told her brothers to get in the car and get rid of the weapon,” defense attorney Rita Jerejian said.
Ostuni added that by “instructing her brothers to throw the weapon out the car window, she created a situation that could have endangered others if the police hadn’t found the gun.”
The weapon smashed the window of a parked vehicle, police said at the time.
In exchange for Jahad Jones’ May guilty plea to pointing the .40-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun, prosecutors dropped several counts of: conspiracy, possession of hollow-nose bullets, possession of a weapon without a permit, pointing a weapon at the victim with indifference to human life, possession of a weapon with a prior conviction, hindering prosecution, lying to police and other offenses involving the use of a minor in the commission of the crimes.
STORY / PHOTO: Mary K. Miraglia, CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter
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