13-year-old girl charged with Jersey City man’s murder
JERSEY CITY A 13-year-old girl is spending the holiday weekend behind bars after being charged with killing a 35-year-old man and injuring another victim in a shooting earlier this month.
The teen was found and arrested Thursday night and charged with first-degree murder, second-degree aggravated assault and three second-degree weapons violations related to the Dec. 10 fatal shooting of Niles Holmes.
Prosecutors said Holmes was shot several times before 4:16 p.m. near the intersection of Martin Luther King Drive and Wilkinson Avenue in the city s Greenville section.
By the time police arrived, Holmes was unconscious. He was pronounced dead two hours later at Jersey City Medical Center.