Two Men Charged With 2015 Shooting Murder Of Eatontown Man: Monmouth County Prosecutor Says

Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni has charged two men with the first-degree murder of an Eatontown man who was found shot to death on Country Club Road on July 10, 2015.

Frederick Reed, 20, New Castle, Delaware and Perry Veney, 30, Long Branch, were also charged with second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purposes. Veney was also charged with certain persons not to to have a weapon, he said.

The arrests are the result of a joint investigation between the Eatontown police department and Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office which begun on July 10, 2015 and continued for nearly a year and a half, Gramiccioni said.

Eatontown police responded to a call of shots being fired at the entrance to the Country Club Apartments at the corner of Tilton Avenue and Country Club Road at 12:13 a.m. on July 10, 2015. There they found Rasheem Palmer, 37, shot and lying in the road on Country Club Road. He was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 2:47 a.m. the prosecutor said.

Reed and Veney face a minimum sentence of thirty years in state prison for the murder charge. They would be ineligible for parole for at least 85 percent of their sentence, Gramiccioni said.

If convicted of second degree possession of a firearm for an unlawful purpose, they face a maximum of ten years in state prison, which is subject to a mandatory minimum of 1/3 of the sentence imposed or 3.5 years, whichever is greater, without parole. Veney also faces a maximum sentence of ten years in State Prison if convicted of the certain persons not to have a weapon charge, which is subject to a mandatory minimum of five years without parole.

Reed was taken into custody on December 28, 2016 in Delaware and is currently being held in a local correctional institution while he awaits extradition back to New Jersey. Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Kathleen A. Sheedy set Reed’s bail at $1.1 million cash.

Veney turned himself in to police on December 30, 2016 and is being held in the Monmouth County Jail on $1.2 million cash.

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