Diquan Speights Sentenced To 16 Years For Dec 2015 Killing
City Resident Pleaded Guilty to shooting Jamal Small & Tyreek Small
An Asbury Park man was sentenced Monday to 16 years for the December 2015 shooting death of a city man, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced in a written news statement.
Diquan Speights, 23, was sentenced by Monmouth County Superior Court Judge Joseph W. Oxley.
Speights pleaded guilty in February to killing Jamal Small and shooting Tyreek Small. He admitted firing five shots into a car where Jamal and Tyreek Small were seated. A joint investigation by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and Asbury Park Police Department revealed just minutes before the shooting Speights pointed and threatened Tieshe Small with a handgun, the same gun used to later kill Jamal Small.
The two victims were found on Summerfield Avenue when Asbury Park police officers responded to reports of a shooting near 11:56 a.m. Dec. 20, 2015, according to the written statement.
Speights will be required under the No Early Release Act to serve 85 percent of his prison term before being eligible for parole. He was also sentenced to 10 years for the aggravated assault of Tyreek Small and 18 months for the aggravated assault of Tieshe Small.
Judge Oxley ordered the sentences to run concurrently and Speights will face five years parole supervision when released.
The case was prosecuted by Monmouth County Assistant Prosecutors Maria Franceschini and Martha Nye. Speights was represented by Carlos Diaz-Cobo of New Brunswick.
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