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A 2-year-old child was at the Forest Park Gardens apartment when the 27-year-old victim was shot in the leg on Feb. 3, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
The man was treated at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center before being released.
Police initially arrested Dasia Bethea, 27, who lives in the apartment, and Dana Proctor, 44, of McDonough, GA on child endangerment charges the following day.
They also charged both of them and Tierney Thompson, 48, of West Harlem with hindering the arrest of the suspected shooter.
All three were released and their arrests weren’t yet made public while city detectives continued to home in on their prime suspect.
The investigators tracked Lavar Proctor, 44, to an apartment in the Bronx where they arrested him this past Wednesday. They also found drugs and an armored vest.
Englewood detectives charged Proctor with attempted murder, child endangerment and weapons offenses, Musella said.
Proctor remained held on Rikers Island pending extradition to New Jersey.
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