New Brunswick, NJ - A New Brunswick man was charged Wednesday with fatally shooting another man, wounding another individual and plotting to kill a third man.
As Patch previously reported, the fatal shooting on the streets of downtown New Brunswick happened last Monday, March 7. Marcos Hernandez, 33, of Passaic was shot at 6:30 p.m. on Drift Street, just blocks from Middlesex County family court.
Raymundo Jael Perez-Garcia, 23, of New Brunswick was charged Wednesday with his murder.
He opened fire and struck Hernandez and another 27-year-old man, whose identity is being withheld. Both men were taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, where Hernandez died on March 9.
He also was charged with conspiracy to commit the murder of another 19-year-old man who was not injured, and was charged with the attempted murder of the 27-year-old.
Perez-Garcia was arrested by police on unrelated charges on March 8. His bail was set at $500,000.
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