Overview
- District Attorney Darcel Clark announced charges against 10 people, including three teenagers, in three connected attacks from Aug. 23 to Sept. 2, and said all defendants have been arraigned and remanded.
- At a Haffen Park basketball tournament on Aug. 23, roughly 57 shots were fired, killing 32-year-old Jaceil Blanks and 17-year-old Anthonaya Campbell and injuring three others.
- On Sept. 1, gunmen opened fire near 686 Allerton Ave., killing 24-year-old Jamari Henry and wounding four; suspects fled, then crashed their car during a police pursuit.
- Prosecutors charged Desean Edwards in the Sept. 2 killing of 21-year-old Jontay Davis, whose body was left at St. Barnabas Hospital; in a separate update, video evidence led to the dismissal of charges against 18-year-old Josue Lopez‑Vasquez tied to the Sept. 1 crash.
- Investigators recovered 13 firearms, including a ghost gun and a pistol modified with a Glock switch, and linked some by ballistics to 13 other shootings in New York City, Mount Vernon and South Carolina.