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Jersey City Five Charged With Murder Of Rival Gang Member, Innocent Girl, 17 Jersey City Five Charged With Murder Of Rival Gang Member, Innocent Girl, 17
Jersey City Five Charged With Murder Of Rival Gang Member, Innocent Girl, 17 Five reputed members of a Jersey City street gang were charged federally with murder in the shooting deaths the same week of a rival and a 17-year-old female bystander. Shaquan "Nut" Rush and Darby "GoHard" Shirden, both 21, and Jeremy "Smoov" Perez, 23, opened fire on a group of people outside the Salem Lafayette Apartments on April 1, 2020 in retaliation for the killing the day before of a high-ranking member of their Rutgers Avenue gang, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Two people were wounded, one of them an 18-year-old associate of the Salem Lafayette gang who survived the shoo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Third Man Charged In April Killing Of Jersey City Girl, 17 Third Man Charged In April Killing Of Jersey City Girl, 17
Third Man Charged In April Killing Of Jersey City Girl, 17 A third individual was charged in the April shooting death of a 17-year-old girl in Jersey City, authorities announced Saturday. Jeremy Perez, age 22, was arrested near Danforth Avenue and Old Bergen Road on Dec. 4 around 6:45 p.m., Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Perez was charged with the April 1 killing of 17-year-old Stephanie Jacquez, and the attempted murder of an 18-year-old man, Suarez said. Darby Shirden, age 20, and Shaquan Rush, were previously arrested and charged in connection with the incident. Jacques was found at the corner of Martin Luther King…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Prosecutor: Jersey City Teen Released From Hospital With Gunshot Wound Dies Next Day Prosecutor: Jersey City Teen Released From Hospital With Gunshot Wound Dies Next Day
Prosecutor: Jersey City Teen Released From Hospital With Gunshot Wound Dies Next Day A 17-year-old Jersey City girl who was sent home from the hospital with a gunshot wound Wednesday night died after being readmitted Thursday morning, authorities said. Police responding to an 8 p.m. shooting in the area of Martin Luther King Drive and Forrest Street said they found an 18-year-old man with a gunshot wound that wasn't considered life-threatening. The girl -- identified in other news reports as Stephanie Jacques -- was found wounded a block away, at the corner of Martin Luther King Drive and Oak Street, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Both were taken to…

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by Valerie Musson