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Authorities snatched up 25-year-old Ruddy Mena on Tuesday in connection with a shooting in the area of Park and Carroll Street the afternoon before.
The 21-year-old victim went to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson to be treated for a gunshot wound before police arrived, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Troy Oswald said in a joint release Wednesday.
An investigation quickly pegged Mena as the shooter, they said.
Mena spent 11 months in state prison in 2016 for a pair of illegal gun possession convictions out of Passaic County.
This past April, he and four other men were charged with shooting another man on a city street.
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SEE: What authorities said was the attempted murder of a 19-year-old Passaic man on a city street Wednesday night produced the arrests of five men -- one of them an ex-con who's already served state prison time for gun convictions.
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That case was still pending when authorities said Mena again pulled the trigger this past Monday.
They charged him with attempted murder and a variety of weapons offenses, including being a felon in possession of a firearm. This time, Mena remained held in the Passaic County Jail.
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