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Newark Man Who Shot Victim Square In Face Convicted: Prosecutor Newark Man Who Shot Victim Square In Face Convicted: Prosecutor
Newark Man Who Shot Victim Square In Face Convicted: Prosecutor A 35-year-old Newark resident was convicted on Wednesday, June 12, of shooting a man in the face in 2022, authorities said. At 6:52 p.m., Eduardo Rodriguez shot Christopher Griffin, 36, in the face in broad daylight in front of a crowd of people on the 300 block of Mount Prospect Avenue, Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens said. Griffin was pronounced dead at the scene, Stephens said. Rodriguez was convicted of murder and multiple weapons offenses, Stephens said. Rodriguez was on parole for a previous carjacking at the time of the murder, Stephens said.  He remains in the Essex …
Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To 2 Cold Case Killings Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To 2 Cold Case Killings
Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To 2 Cold Case Killings A man sentenced to life in prison after strangling a single mother has been linked to two cold-case killings including one in Maryland and another in Virginia dating back to 1987, according to police. Charles Helem, 52, is serving life in prison at a supermax state prison for the 2002 murder of Patricia Bentley, a 37-year-old single mother from Chantilly, Virginia. He strangled Bentley with a phone cord and his hands, according to officials. This week, Helem was indicted for murder by a Fairfax County grand jury in the 1987 murder of another woman and is also suspected of killing a third wo…