By Chris Sykes on EAST ORANGE, HEADLINE NEWS, IRVINGTON, ORANGE
IRVINGTON, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office has arrested a suspect in connection with the Friday, Aug. 17, homicide of a woman whose body was dumped on Krotik Place in Irvington and originally identified as the township’s fifth homicide of the year. It was later revealed she had actually been killed in Orange. On […]
By Chris Sykes on EAST ORANGE, HEADLINE NEWS, ORANGE
EAST ORANGE, NJ — East Orange suffered another homicide, two weeks after the shooting death of STEM Academy teacher Kofi Owens on 16th Street on Friday, Aug. 3. On Friday, Aug. 17, acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino and East Orange Police Chief Phyllis Bindi announced the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide-Major Crimes Task […]
By Chris Sykes on EAST ORANGE, HEADLINE NEWS, IRVINGTON, ORANGE
IRVINGTON, NJ — According to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and authorities in Irvington, Orange suffered its third homicide of the year, after police determined that a woman found on Krokit Place in Irvington on Friday, Aug. 17, had actually been killed in Orange, then dumped there. The victim has been identified as Shafequa Cooper, […]
By Chris Sykes on HEADLINE NEWS, IRVINGTON
IRVINGTON, NJ — The township suffered its sixth homicide of the year Saturday, Dec. 9, when Ahmad J. Carson, 33, of Newark, was shot and killed on Myrtle Avenue, shortly after 1 a.m. On Saturday, Dec. 9, Chief Assistant Prosecutor Thomas S. Fennelly of the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit announced acting Essex County […]
By Chris Sykes on HEADLINE NEWS, IRVINGTON
IRVINGTON, NJ — On Monday, Dec. 4, acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino announced that an Essex County jury convicted Rick King, 33, of Newark, of fatally shooting Amit Patel, 28, of Edison, in 2015, following a two-month trial before Superior Court Judge Mark Ali. Irvington Public Safety Director Tracy Bowers said King’s conviction […]
By Chris Sykes on HEADLINE NEWS, IRVINGTON
IRVINGTON, NJ — Irvington suffered its fourth homicide of the year Monday, Oct. 23, matching the total number of homicides in 2016, with two months still remaining in the year. Acting Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino and Irvington Public Safety Director Tracy Bowers announced last week the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide-Major Crimes Task […]