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Plainfield Man Gets 20+ For Fatal Shooting: Prosecutor

A 34-year-old Plainfield man was sentenced to 23 years in state prison on Thursday, May 16, for fatally shooting a man in 2022, authorities said.

Haneef Welch

Haneef Welch

Photo Credit: Essex County Jail

At 4 p.m. on March 11, Plainfield police responded to Johnston Avenue and East 2nd Street and found Eric Williams, a 50-year-old Plainfield resident hit with multiple gunshot wounds, Union County Prosecutor William Daniel and Plainfield Police Director James Abney said. He was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.

Haneef Welch was sentenced after pleading guilty to aggravated manslaughter, authorities said. 

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