Crime & Safety
Jersey City Man Gets 25 Years In Shooting Death Of Bayonne Woman, 26
A Jersey City man who'd been acquitted of homicide in 2018 was sentenced to 25 years in prison for shooting Diamond Robinson in 2019.
JERSEY CITY, NJ — A Jersey City man, 31, has been sentenced to 25 years in New Jersey State Prison for the shooting death of Diamond Robinson, 26, of Bayonne in 2019.
At the time of the shooting, NJ.com reported that the man had been acquitted the year before of a 2010 homicide.
This past Thursday, Judge Mitzy Galis-Menendez sentenced Anthony Shuler, 31, to 25 years in New Jersey State Prison for shooting death of Robinson.
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In August of 2022, Shuler had pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated manslaughter in connection with the death.
NJ.com has reported that in 2018, Shuler was acquitted of a 2010 homicide.
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No Early Release Act
The prison sentence is subject to the No Early Release Act.
“It is our hope that this sentence provides some comfort to the victim’s loved ones,” said Assistant Prosecutor Kevin Roe.
On Sept. 22, 2019, at approximately 5:10 a.m., members of the Bayonne Police Department
responded to 484 John F. Kennedy Boulevard on a report of a domestic violence incident, prosecutors said.
Officers found Robinson with an apparent gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene at approximately 5:30 a.m., prosecutors said.
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