Two men who played a role in the 2015 shooting death of 19-year-old Elvin Kimble have been sentenced to state prison after pleading guilty to downgraded criminal offenses. Originally arrested on heavy murder charges, Gary Spears, 35, of Trenton, pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated manslaughter and has been sentenced to 10 years of incarceration while …
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A Mercer County Grand Jury has returned indictments against two men in the murder of 19-year-old Elvin Kimble. The 19-year-old was gunned down on a city street in November 2015. According to the prosecutor’s office that on November 24, 2015 around 12:39 a.m., police officers were dispatched to the area of Chestnut Avenue and Rusling …
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One hour before he was killed in a gun battle on the hardscrabble streets of Trenton, Elvin Kimble and another person burglarized the vehicle of a man who is charged in his murder, prosecutors said. When 40-year-old Jermaine Johnson, of Ewing, gave chase, Kimble fired in his direction, Assistant Prosecutor Tim Ward said. This was …
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Two men were arrested in the shooting death of Elvin Kimble, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said Friday. According to a release, the pair were arrested on Friday morning in connection with the 19-year-old’s death. Jermaine Johnson, 40, of Ewing and Gary M. Spears, 33, of Trenton by the Mercer County Homicide Task Force and …
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For more than 30 years, old-timey Trenton cop Mickey Forker raced toward violence in the capital city in his “wagon.” In the early-morning hours Tuesday, the violence came to him. “Chambersburg used to be spotless,” said Forker, a retired Trenton Police officer who has lived in a sparsely furnished apartment on Division Street for 20 …
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A man was shot and killed Tuesday morning, ending a two-month break from homicides in the city. “There was some type of gun battle out here last night,” a man who was at the murder scene Tuesday said. “But by the time cops got here, the suspects had fled. Police searched the area and couldn’t …
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