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Bernard Wilson, 27, gunned down 38-year-old Abimael Fuentes on Brinkerhoff Street between Monticello and Bergen avenues around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said Wednesday.
Fuentes was taken with an abdominal gunshot wound to Jersey City Medical Center, where Suarez said he was pronounced deceased at 1:41 a.m.
Members of Suarez's Homicide Unit seized Wilson at his home Wednesday morning and recovered two guns, the prosecutor said.
They charged him with murder and various weapons offenses, including being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, the prosecutor said.
Wilson remained held in the Hudson County Correctional Facility in Kearny pending a court appearance.
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