Crime & Safety
Man Charged In Triple Shooting In Jersey City That Left Woman Dead
A Newark man has been charged with murder in a 2021 triple shooting that included the killing of Raven Harris, 30, in Jersey City last year.
JERSEY CITY, NJ —A Newark man has been charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder in connection with a triple shooting that left a woman dead in Jersey City last year.
The Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said that the United States Marshals Service New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested the man on Tuesday in connection with the shooting that left Raven Harris, 30, dead.
Jimmy Colclough, 31, is charged with murder, two counts of attempted murder, and three weapons possession charges.
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He was arrested at a hotel on Paterson Plank Road in Carlstadt and is being held at the Hudson County Correctional Facility pending his first court appearance, prosecutors said.
On Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, just before 10 p.m., members of the Jersey City Police
Department responded to a report of shots fired in the area of Old Bergen Road and Neptune
Avenue. Responding officers found three shooting victims, a 30-year-old Jersey City woman –
later identified as Raven Harris – as well as two male victims, ages 28 and 29.
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The three victims were transported by Emergency Medical Services to Jersey City Medical Center.
Harris was pronounced dead at approximately 10:30 p.m. The Northern Regional Medical
Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death to be multiple gunshot wounds and the manner
of death to be homicide. The two male victims were treated for their injuries and released.
Last year, friends mourned Harris's death.
"Rest in peace raven," wrote a woman on Facebook. "I passed her everyday from and to work...rest easy."
"I love an will miss u DEARLY," wrote another woman. "U waz always nice 2 Me an always trying to make me feel better. I love u Rav. c u again baby n time."
Prosecutor Suarez credited the United States Marshals Service New York/New Jersey Regional
Fugitive Task Force, the HCPO’s Homicide and Gang Intelligence Units, and the Jersey City
Police Department with the arrest and investigation.
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