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Asbury Park Teen ID'd, Charged With Shooting Near Brick High School
An Asbury Park teenager has agreed to be prosecuted as an adult in last year's shooting outside an Ocean County high school, authorities said.
Alonzo Legrande, who is now 18, was charged as an adult on Thursday with four counts of attempted murder and weapons charges, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said.
Legrande was 17 when the crimes occurred, Billhimer said, and as a juvenile offender, his name was not released. But he has voluntarily waived Family Court jurisdiction, the prosecutor said.
Brick Township police were called to Brick Memorial High School on Oct. 22, 2019, at…
Authorities: NYC Man, 26, Gets Life In Prison For 'Brutal, Senseless' Toms River Shooting Death
A 26-year-old man from New York City has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing a drug dealer, authorities said.
Anthony Barksdale, also known as Shakar Barksdale and previously from Seaside Heights, was found guilty after a jury trial in the murder of Steven E. Stallworth of Brick.
“This was a brutal and senseless murder," Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said
Stallworth was shot in the cheek outside the Hampton Gardens apartment building in Toms River on March 5, 2018, with a 9mm, hollow-point bullet from a Ruger automatic handgun, prosecutors …
Jackson Pizzeria Murder: Accused 'Hit Man' Gets 19 Years In State Prison On Weapons Charges
A 53-year-old man from Freehold was sentenced to 19 years in state prison on Monday in connection with a murder of a business partner in 2015, authorities said.
Hector Calderon, a pizza maker, originally faced a murder charge in the alleged contract killing of Peyman Sanandaji, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said.
Sanandaji, a 34-year-old luxury car salesman, had been a partner with Calderon and a third man, Daniele G. RomeodiSantillo, in a pizzeria they planned to open in Spotswood. But Sanandaji, whose lifelong dream was to open a restaurant, was shot dead -- …
Police: Mahwah Man, 87, Threatens Painters With Knife, Coaxed From Condo By Sergeant On Ladder
An 87-year-old Mahwah man who threatened a painting crew with a knife had to be coaxed out of his condo by a police sergeant who climbed a ladder to his window, authorities said.
Michael Fennell “was apparently angered by the work that was being done outside of his residence and began to wave a knife at the painters” at the Indian Ridge condominium complex Wednesday morning, Capt. Guido Bussinelli said.
The painters, who’d been hired by the condo association, “retreated, distancing themselves from the angered resident,” and alerted someone who called police, Bussinelli said.
Detective Lt. …
