Police are investigating a shooting that claimed the life of a city man early Sunday morning.
Taquan McNeil, 25, of Trenton (Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office Photo)
According to Trenton Police Lt. Stephen Varn the incident occurred in the city’s West Ward around 2:20 a.m. Varn said that officers were detailed to the 100 block of Boudinot Street on report of a male shot. Upon police arrival they found the victim, identified as Taquan McNeil, 25, lying on the sidewalk in front of 131 Boudinot suffering from gunshot wounds. Varn said the 25-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. Read more
A Pennsylvania inmate testified Wednesday that Sheena Robinson-Crews, the widow of a Trenton gang member, confessed setting up her husband’s Sept. 12, 2008 murder.
Maria Cappelli appeared by video conference from state prison in Muncy, Pa., and said she could no longer keep the alleged confession a secret so she reported it to corrections officials about two years after Robinson-Crews reportedly confided in her sometime in 2009 while they were housed at the Bucks County jail. Read more
“Who did this to you? Who did this to you? Who did this to you?”
Sheena Robinson-Crews held her husband close, frantically asking him for the identity of the person who shot him inside the couple’s Whittaker Avenue residence on Sept. 12, 2008.
A dying Tracy Crews spit up a mouthful of blood and mumbled the name of his close friend, Robinson-Crews testified Tuesday.
“Pa-per-boy.” Read more
A city man has been indicted in connection with the shooting death of 23-year-old Naquan Ellis.
Grady A. Blue III
Grady A. Blue III, 22, was indicted last week on charges of murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault and related weapons offenses in connection with a June 2014 shooting that killed Ellis and injured a woman.
The shooting took place in the parking lot of the North 25 Housing complex. Ellis suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was later pronounced dead at the hospital. The female victim sustained non-life-threatening gunshot wounds to her leg and hand. Read more
Anthony L. Concepcion produced a handgun from his waistband, fired at the ground and pumped several rounds into Patrick Walker outside of La Guira Bar in December, authorities said.
Prosecutors are still unsure of the reasons behind the Dec. 13 slaying that took the 39-year-old’s life. Was it drug related? Was it gang related? Did Concepcion, 23, who is charged with murder and weapons offenses, exchange words with Walker before the shooting?
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A judge ruled Monday a jury in the Tracy Crews murder trial can hear evidence of a dying declaration Crews reportedly made moments after he was shot in the neck in September 2008.
The decision paves the way for the state to recall Sheena Robinson-Crews, the victim’s widow, to the witness stand. She testified before the jury last week but was instructed not to discuss her husband’s final words after another judge previously ruled it was inadmissible, based on Robinson-Crews’ evolving recollection of her husband’s dying declaration. Read more
A city man was shot and killed Saturday evening in an apartment building hallway.
According to law enforcement, around 9:52 p.m. Saturday, police received calls about gunfire in the 1900 block of Riverside Drive. When officers arrived on-scene, they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound in a second floor hallway. He was found in front of what is believed to be his apartment, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office. Initial reports indicated that the man had been shot multiple times, but the prosecutor’s office said that he died of a single gunshot wound. Read more
Defense attorneys in the Tracy Crews murder trial are expected to raise a third-party guilt defense, implicating the wife of a Trenton gangster in his September 2008 murder.
The defense is based on expected witness testimony of Pennsylvania inmate Maria Cappelli.
Cappelli, an inmate at Muncy state prison, told a corrections officer Sheena Robinson-Crews, the victim’s widow, admitted setting up her husband’s murder. Read more
Assistant Prosecutor Al Garcia wants a judge to reconsider whether a jury can hear evidence of a dying declaration Trenton gang member Tracy Crews reportedly made moments after he was shot in the neck with a 9 mm luger in September 2008.
While Sheena Robinson-Crews cradled her dying husband in her arms on a city street, she reportedly asked her husband about the identity of the assailant. Read more
While incarcerated in a county jail awaiting trial for murder, Nigel Joseph Dawson admitted firing the fatal shot that killed Tracy Crews during a botched home invasion on Sept. 12, 2008, a confidential jailhouse informant testified Thursday.
Isaiah Franklin, the state’s star witness and one of four jailhouse informants on the witness list, took the stand and told the jury Dawson confessed he was at Crews home to rob the convicted drug dealer of $40,000.
When Crews recognized his voice, Dawson panicked and shot him in the neck, Franklin said. But before Dawson and William Brown allegedly fled the Whittaker Avenue residence, they heard Crews cry out. Read more
