A Jersey City man has been charged with a fatal shooting that caused the victim to crash his car into a tree back in May, Acting Hudson County Prosecutor Wayne Mello announced.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
Yesterday, members of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit, Gang Task Force, and the United States Marshals Fugitive Task Force arrested a 28-year-old man wanted in connection with a fatal shooting that occurred in May, Mello said in a statement.
Gerard Rosario, of Jersey City, is charged with murder, unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and certain persons not to possess a firearm.
He was arrested on 38th Street in Union City and transported to the Hudson County Correctional Facility pending his first court appearance.
Shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 3rd, the Jersey City Police Department was notified of a motor vehicle crash in the area of Old Bergen Road and Merritt Street.
Responding officers located an unresponsive male in the driver’s seat of a vehicle that had crashed into a tree on Merritt Street. The unresponsive man – later identified as Devon Reid, 39, of Elizabeth – was discovered with a gunshot wound to the neck.
He was transported by Emergency Medical Services to the Jersey City Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at approximately 7:16 p.m.
Mello credited the Homicide Unit, Gang Task Force, and the United States Marshals Fugitive Task Force with the arrest.
