Essex County Christmas Strip Club Slayer Convicted

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — An Essex County jury has convicted a 22-year-old Newark man of killing three people and wounding two others at Slick’s, an Irvington strip club and bar, on Christmas Day 2013.

Prosecutors announced the jury’s verdict against Anthony Fields, 22, of Newark, on Tuesday.

Following a trial, jury members convicted Fields of murdering Woodley Daniel, 32, a bouncer at the club. Jury members also convicted Fields of aggravated manslaughter for killing Pierre Clervoyant, 34, the son of the club’s owner and one of its managers, and aggravated manslaughter for killing Mushir Cureton, 27.

According to prosecutors, Fields opened fire on the bouncer and other employees and patrons of the club, including Clervoyant and Cureton, outside the club around 12:30 a.m. on Christmas Day in 2013.

Clervoyant, Cureton and other patrons of the club had just exited the building after a disturbance at the door when the shooting took place, prosecutors said.

Following the shootings Fields fled the New Jersey. He was arrested on Jan. 12 at his mother’s home in Florida, prosecutors said.

In addition to convicting Fields of the homicide counts and multiple weapons offenses, the jury found him guilty of aggravated assault on two other patrons - a 34-year-old man and a 27-year-old man - who suffered bullet wounds in the attack but survived.

Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 27, 2017. Fields faces life in prison, prosecutors stated.

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