Seven People Charged In Shooting Death Of 14-Year-Old Paterson Girl
PATERSON, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Seven people face charges in connection with the shooting death of a 14-year-old Paterson girl.
High school freshman Nazerah Bugg was killed on the evening of Sept. 20 as she walked with friends on Clinton Street after leaving Mom's Fried Chicken. Her 15-year-old friend was also shot and wounded.
Three Paterson men -- Shakeem Ricks, 20, Tyheem Mayfield, 22, and Nyje Johnson, 19 -- are charged with murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Each man remains jailed on $2 million bail.
Three juveniles also face charges; one person is still on the loose.
The fatal shooting was not gang related and Bugg was not the shooters' intended victim, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia Valdes said.
Valdes attributed the shooting to ongoing neighborhood disputes in Paterson's 1st and 4th wards. She said there were two shootings the day Bugg was killed and at least two shooters fired at least 15 times at Bugg and her companions.
A young girl who said she was friends with the victim said the territorial dispute has been ongoing for some time, 1010 WINS' Gary Baumgarten last month.
"Up the hill, across the bridge had beef with people downhill on this side of the bridge," she said. "I don't even know why. We're all a community. We're all Paterson. We all need to get along. They trying to get war."
"Guns is not the answer," said another friend. "They shooting innocent people for no reason."
The shooting came a little more than two months after 12-year-old Genesis Rincon was killed by a stray bullet while riding her scooter in Paterson.
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