Neptune Man Gets 45 Years In State Prison For 2011 Murder In Asbury Park

Freehold, N.J. – It will be many years, if ever, when Thaddeus Reevey can walk the streets a free man.

Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Thomas F. Scully sentenced Reevey to 45 years in state prison for the 2011 murder of a man in the Asbury Park Village housing complex, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said.

Reevey, 23, was convicted by a jury in March for first-degree murder and second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose after a three-week trial before Monmouth County Superior Court Judge John R. Tassini.

Reevey must serve 85 percent of his sentence before he is eligible for parole. Scully tacked on an additional six years for the weapons charge, to run concurrently with the 45-year sentence. The six-year sentence carries a 3.5 year period of parole ineligibility, Gramiccioni said.

Asbury Park police responded to a shooting at 6:18 p.m. on Nov. 8, 2011 in the area of Adams Street and and Sylvan Way in the housing complex. There they found Eric Freeman, who had been shot multiple times. He was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center, where he died at 6:58 p.m., Gramiccioni said.

His death was ruled a homicide by the Middlesex County Medical Examiner's Office.

Detectives from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and Asbury Park Police
Department conducted a joint investigation into the homicide. Evidence at the trial established that Reevey approached Freeman, brandished a handgun, then shot Freeman three times at close range, Gramiccioni said.

The case was prosecuted by Monmouth County Assistant Prosecutor Christopher J.
Decker, the Director of the Office’s Major Crimes Bureau.