Crime & Safety
Man Sentenced In Hoboken Apartment Killing: Hudson County Prosecutor
Tahjae McDougald, 25, was sentenced after pleading guilty to aggravated manslaughter, Hudson County prosecutors said.
HOBOKEN, NJ — A South Jersey man was sentenced to 14 years in state prison for a fatal shooting in a Hoboken apartment building in 2020, prosecutors announced Monday.
Tahjae McDougald, 25, faced sentencing on Friday after pleading guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the shooting death of Marquise Davis, 24, also of Willingboro, the Hudson County Prosecutor's office said.
Davis was fatally shot in the upper body in an apartment at 300 Grand St. on Aug. 7, 2020, just after 10:30 p.m., according to prosecutors and police.
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McDougald had been paroled from state prison seven months before the shooting, The Courier Post reported in 2020.
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The Willingboro man's sentence will be subject to the No Early Release Act, prosecutors said.
Hoboken's homicide rate tends to vacillate between 1 and 0. The last shooting death in Hoboken was this past Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022.
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