Four people have been arrested in the mass shooting in Newark that left three people dead, including a 10-year-old boy, authorities said Thursday.
Almuta Thomas, 31; Quayon Williams-King, 26; Furquan Boykin Jr., 19, and an unnamed 16-year-old male have all been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the Nov. 15 shooting, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.
Kiyah Mae Scott, 21; Masi Rogers, 19, and Jordan Garcia, 10, were killed in the shooting, which happened around 7 p.m. at the corner of Leslie St. and Chancellor Ave.
The suspects were also charged with two counts of aggravated assault for wounding Sheppard Miller, 60, and Garcia’s 11-year-old brother, Jayceon. The two wounded victims have since been released from the hospital.
Cops tracked down the four suspects by connecting them to a stolen vehicle, which the crew used for the shooting and then set it on fire, Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stevens II said at a press conference Thursday morning. Surveillance video captured them leaving the scene of the fire in a different car.
Two days after the shooting, police stopped the second car in Newark after a short chase and arrested Williams-King, according to investigators. Another man in the car was also arrested but was not involved in the shooting, authorities said.
Boykin and the 16-year-old boy were the gunmen but all four suspects planned the attack, which targeted one of the victims, Stevens said. A motive for the shooting is still under investigation and may have been connected to a robbery earlier in the day, but authorities couldn’t say for sure.
Thomas and Williams-King drove Boykin and the teenage suspect to and from the murder scene, cops said. All four were charged with murder conspiracy, while Thomas and Williams-King were charged with arson and motor vehicle theft for stealing the car and torching it.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/12/11/newark-mass-shooting-suspects-arrested/
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