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Man, 39, Gunned Down In Paterson Was Warren County Resident, Authorities Say
A registered sex offender from Paterson shot an out-of-county man dead on a street behind the public library last week, authorities said.
Ex-con Jaquan Housey, 33, was charged with murder and weapons offenses in the slaying of Rodney Phelps, 39, of Warren County’s Washington Township.
Responding officers found Phelps’s body in the middle of Van Van Houten Avenue between the library and the Edward W. Kilpatrick School shortly before 11:30 p.m. last Friday, Feb. 4.
He’d been shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Po…