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Nyedair Parker, a 28-year-old ex-con with an adult criminal history that began soon after he turned 18, remained held in the Passaic County Jail on attempted murder and various weapons charges, including being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
Authorities accused him and Isaiah Snead, then 18, in the shooting of the 15-year-old victim near the corner of 11th Avenue and East 28th Street — about a block from Rosa Parks Arts High School -- on June 9, 2019.
Parker had been back on the street for several months after serving nearly three years in state prison for carrying a pistol in his waistband a block from a press conference a local church where U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell discussed gun control, records show.
Snead was arrested a little over a month after the teen was shot.
Parker, whom Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora described as a “participant” in the shooting, was captured on Thursday.
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