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Teen Charged In Fatal Shooting Of Pennsylvania Boy In Jersey City
A teen has been charged in the death of a 16-year-old who was found shot in a Jersey City apartment last week.
JERSEY CITY, NJ — A 17-year-old male was arrested Wednesday in connection with the fatal shooting of a teen in Jersey City last week, prosecutors said.
The suspect — whose name prosecutors will not release because he's a juvenile — was charged Wednesday with aggravated manslaughter, tampering with physical evidence, and two weapons possession charges, said the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office.
The victim, identified as Al-Jahmir Curry, 16, of Pennsylvania, was found by Jersey City police on Friday shortly after 5 p.m. inside an apartment on Rose Avenue.
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He was found with an apparent gunshot wound to the upper body, police said.
He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead just before 5:30 p.m., prosecutors said.
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The Regional Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death to be a gunshot wound to the upper body and the manner of
death to be homicide, prosecutors said.
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