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The victim was later identified as McCord, age 19, of Jersey City. He was found in a lifeless condition with an apparent gunshot wound to his torso. McCord was pronounced dead at the scene at approximately 10:00 p.m. The Regional Medical Examiner’s Office determined the Cause of Death to be a gunshot wound to the chest and the Manner of Death to be Homicide.

Responding Police Officers also found a female victim outside of a residence in the area of 17 Merseles Court. The 21-year-old female victim had an apparent gunshot wound to one of her extremities. The victim was transported by Emergency Medical Services to Jersey City Medical Center where she was treated for non-life threatening injuries.

A third defendant, Lasaun Rose, age 28, is pending sentencing. Rose pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the first degree to be treated as second degree for sentencing on January 7, 2020 before the Honorable Judge Mark J. Nelson, J.S.C. Williams and Robinson also pleaded guilty on January 7, 2020 before Judge Nelson.

The State was represented in this case by Assistant Prosecutor Leonardo Rinaldi of the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit.