There were 18 homicides in Hudson County in 2020. Why one Jersey City official thinks there should be fewer Updated Dec 30, 2020; Posted Dec 30, 2020 Hudson County Prosecutor s Office members and Jersey City police are seen on July 10, 2020, investigating the death of Yusef Mathis, who was found shot dead inside a car on Clerk Street. (Joe Shine | For The Jersey Journal)Joe Shine | For The Jersey Journ Facebook Share Jersey City is fighting violent crime with a multi-pronged strategy, but the state’s second largest city could use some help from judges and the criminal court system, Public Safety Director James Shea says. “One homicide victim had 4 previous gun arrests, another one had two previous gun arrests,” Shea said during an interview about the city’s homicide rate in 2020. “The next one had three robbery arrests; the next one had three gun arrests and a murder arrest.”
Family, friends mourn loss of ‘loving’ mother of 4, who was fatally shot on Jersey City street Updated Dec 13, 2020; JERSEY CITY About two weeks before the fatal shooting of Aieshia McFadden, she was talking to her cousin, Damon Critten, about a family member’s wedding that’s happening next year. Critten said he and McFadden loved to party and have fun together, so next year was something they looked forward to. Family, friends and colleagues attended the 36-year-old’s funeral on Sunday. Though family said it was a rough day, they said they reflected on the loving, hardworking and funny woman that McFadden was.
Stop the attack on our women | Opinion Updated Dec 11, 2020; Posted Dec 11, 2020 Aieshia McFadden of Jersey City was shot and killed on her way home from a store on Dec. 4, leaving four children. Facebook Share I recently attended a candlelight vigil for Aieshia McFadden. Aieshia McFadden, a wife, and mother of four beautiful children did not deserve the fate of being murdered for standing up for herself because a coward in a liquor store sexually assaulted her. Aieshia’s children and loved ones should not have had to witness what happened to their mother and friend. A family will forever be traumatized and have a void because of this horrific act of violence.
UPDATED: 35-year-old man fatally shot, another injured, in Jersey City, authorities say By John Heinis/Hudson County View “The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit & JCPD are investigating a shooting that occurred just after 4:15pm today on MLK Drive & Myrtle Ave in which a 35-year-old man was fatally injured,” the HCPO tweeted at 7:04 p.m. this evening. “A second man sustained non life-threatening injuries. More info to follow.” The murder occurred on the one-year anniversary of when four innocent people were killed during an anti-Semitic, domestic terror incident, which was acknowledged by both local and state officials earlier today.
Jersey City Looks Back On Deadly Kosher Market Shooting, One Year Ago Today arrow Emergency responders work at a kosher supermarket, the site of a shooting in Jersey City, N.J., on December 11, 2019. Seth Wenig/AP/Shutterstock New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal was headed to Washington, DC, when he heard about the unfolding attack in Jersey City’s Greenville neighborhood. Police Detective Joseph Seals was fatally shot in the Bay View Cemetery. Then, Grewal listened on police radio as two shooters attacked a kosher market nearby, where they engaged in a gun battle with police before being killed. On the radio, Grewal heard “the pings of the gunshots” hitting an armored police vehicle. At the scene, he saw the shell-shocked faces of SWAT team members. And afterward, sitting with the widow of one of the victims, Douglas Miguel Rodriguez, an immigrant from Ecuador who worked for the Jewish market owners, Grewal listened to her questions: “How could somebody hate the Jewish people? The Jewish people gave my husband a job. How could they do this? How do people have room in their hearts for this much hate?”