Overview
- Police responding to a 911 call around 11 a.m. on Sept. 6 found 28-year-old Toraya Reid with multiple gunshot wounds near the exit of the Paragon Apartment Complex in Jackson Township.
- Officers observed a man fleeing on North New Prospect Road and took Shaquille Green into custody without incident, authorities said.
- Prosecutors said the investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit and local agencies identified Green, who had been in a dating relationship with Reid, as the person responsible.
- Green is charged with murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and unlawful possession of a weapon, and he is being held at the Ocean County Jail pending a detention hearing.
- Naz Reid and relatives have shared tributes on social media as members of the NBA community, including Karl-Anthony Towns, offered condolences while the case moves into pretrial proceedings.