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Shooting on Amboy Avenue

*Photo by Paul W. Wang

*Photo by Paul W. Wang

PERTH AMBOY – On early Saturday morning 2/14/15 around 1:35 a.m. there was a shooting near the 829 Lounge on Amboy Avenue. The police are looking for suspect Jahmmel Chephas, 32, of Franklin Park whom is charged by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office for the murder of Richard Pryce who succumbed to his injuries later that morning at RBMC. If you have any information regarding the shooting please call the Perth Amboy Police Department at (732) 324-3856 or the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office (732) 745-3373. Above is a memorial left on the corner of Amboy Avenue and Barclay Streets where the shooting took place.

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