http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/0 ... y_sho.html

 

A 19-year-old Carteret resident set to graduate from the borough high school was shot and killed on his front steps late Tuesday night, his family said.

 

Devon Mbachu was shot in the head in front of his house on the 100 block of Lowell Street, said his mother, Isilma Samuel said.

 

Mbachu was taken to Rahway Hospital where he was pronounced dead, his mother said.

 

A second man suffered a graze wound to the back of his head, the mother said.

 

Police referred all questions to the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office, which has not responded to inquires about the shooting.

 

"My son was supposed to graduate tomorrow from Carteret High School. He had an acceptance letter from Middlesex County College," the saddened mother said in a barely audible voice.

 

Samuel said she moved from Orange to Carteret about four years ago to give son and his brother a better place to live.

 

Mbachu had been in a detention facility last year but had been released. He was going through a re-entry program in New Brunswick called "Rainbow of Hope," said Dina Bowser, president of the program.

 

"He had really turned his life and his attitude around. He was my success story," Bowser said.

 

On Tuesday night, Samuel picked up her son from his job at J.C. Penny in Woodbridge Mall about 10:30 p.m.

 

At home the son quickly looked on his Facebook page on the computer and then rushed outside, Samuel said.

 

He told her that he was just going in front of the house, Samuel said.

 

"I guess he got a message from somebody," the mother said.

 

Samuel said she was in a room with her mother, who came from the Virgin Islands for the high school graduation, when the shots rang out.

 

"Four gunshots. Pop, pop, pop, pop," Samuel said.

 

Then she heard banging on the door, and somebody yelling, "Open the door. Devon's been shot," she said.

 

Vinyl siding was pulled back on the front of the house where police dug bullets out of the wall.

yeah we just had a murder in our town too, a 23 year old kid supposedly got into a fight with another kid around the same age. They were told to leave the party, so the one kid caught up with the other kid and supposedly stabbed em to death on fort plains road in Howell.

Can't escape this stuff no matter where you live, a teacher in the town I work in was stabbed 80 times and killed this past weekend.

with all the gun banning going on knives are becoming very popular.. :roll:

There is a lot of local killing going on lately.

There is a lot of local killing going on lately.

 

It's the heat of summer. People who are usually inside are now outside looking for trouble due to the boredom of having no job perhaps?

hey if you click the link you can see my house on that map!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

oh wait thats a bad thing.. :?

 

 

and just a few months ago there was another shooting at another high school kid.. only a block away from this one too

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/0 ... front.html

 

this article has more info... same site too.. odd..

 

anyway it tells more of the story

 

Carteret Mayor Daniel Reiman said both victims were known members of the Crips youth gang.

 

"These were not choir boys. Both were well known to law enforcement in Carteret and the area," Reiman said.

 

He said Mbachu had recently been charged with pulling a gun on another person. Reiman called the shooting an isolated incident between gang members.

Another success story cut down in the prime of his life. :violin: