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The target of the attack appeared to be the mans Range Rover, said Carolyn Murray, the acting Essex County prosecutor.
It was the car, not the persons, she told reporters.
Authorities identified the suspects as Hanif Thompson, Karif Ford, Basim Henry and Kevin Roberts, aged 29 to 33 and all from New Jersey, NBC New York reported. They were arrested Friday night and early Saturday.
The victim, Dustin Friedland, 30, had just left The Mall at Short Hills, about a half-hour outside New York, last Sunday night and opened the car door for his wife in the parking garage. He was shot at least once in the head while he was trying to get in on the drivers side.
The attackers sped off in the car, a 2012 Range Rover. It was found abandoned the next morning in Newark, about 15 miles from the mall. The wife was not hurt in the attack.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/21/21996801-4-arrested-in-carjacking-and-shooting-death-outside-upscale-nj-mall?lite
Skittles
(153,193 posts)so many lives ruined
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)JPZenger
(6,819 posts)In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Sad!
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Not an excuse...a reason...
Willie Sutton was asked..."Why do you rob banks?"...his answer "that's where the money is"...
same here...though black on black crime is still more than black on white...when it is black on white it's because "that's where the money is"
firsttimer
(324 posts)If they wanted to go where the money was I'm sure they knew
where there were drugs and whole lot of cash stashed .
Problem is the people that have that would shoot them and
then cut them up into pieces.
The man and his wife was an easy target , that's all it was.
Ava Gadro
(36 posts)None.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)In addition to the federal charges, Henry also faced separate state charges for weapons possession.
Henry was only recently released from federal prison on April 29, 2013, after a federal court judge reduced his sentence.
Karif Ford, 31, also of Newark, was arrested last year after leading police on a three-mile chase through Woodbridge in a car stolen from a supermarket parking lot. He was also charged with burglary in 2003 and was sentenced to five years in prison.
Hanif Thompson, 29, of Irvington, had been charged in the past on narcotics and theft charges.
And, sources say Kevin Roberts, 33, of Newark, the fourth man charged, also had a criminal record. The sources asked not to be named because they are not authorized to discuss what is still an active investigation.
http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2013/12/short_hills_mall_carjacking_suspects_had_criminal_records_ranging_from_bank_robbery_to_burglary.html
seattledo
(295 posts)Logical
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