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Lamont Griffin, 22, opened fire and struck the 39-year-old driver from Newark twice in the area of Route 20 off the eastbound highway around 3:30 p.m. March 2, they said.
The wounded victim was taken in a private vehicle to the A+ Urgent Care treatment center in Clifton before being transferred to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and New Jersey State Police Colonel Patrick J. Callahan said.
Griffin was captured East 33rd Street and Park Avenue in Paterson by members of the New Jersey State Police Troop B Criminal Investigations Office and the U.S. Marshal’s New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force around 11 a.m. March 15, Valdes and Callahan said.
He was charged with attempted murder and weapons offenses and remains held in the Passaic County Jail.
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