North Carolina man arrested for overnight shooting
Victim, shot in back, treated and released from hospital
A North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with the overnight shooting of a 24-year-old Neptune man along the city’s Summerfield Avenue, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni announced Tuesday afternoon.
Elijah ‘Streets’ Graham, 27, of Bronco Lane in Fairview, North Caroline was charged with first-degree attempted murder, second degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and second degree unlawful possession of a weapon.
Asbury Park police responded near 10:01 p.m. Monday to a report of shots fired along the 1500 block of Summerfield Avenue, according Prosecutor’s office spokesman Charles Webster.
Police found the 24-year-old victim located at 1311 Washington Avenue with a single gunshot wound to his back, Webster said. He was transported to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune where he was treated and released.
A joint investigation by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and the Asbury Park Police Department determined the victim was shot inside a 2005 Chevrolet Malibu parked along Summerfield Avenue.
“This is just another example of the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and the Asbury Park Police Department working together,” Acting Asbury Park Police Chief Anthony Salerno said. “The fact that they were able to bring this case to a rapid conclusion is indictitive of the types of police officers we have in both agencies.”
Graham was arrested near 4 a.m. Tuesday, Webster said. He is being held at Monmouth County Jail in lieu of $500,000 cash only bail, meaning no chance of posting a 10 percent bond, set by County Superior Court Judge Honora O’Brien Kilgallen.
Kilgallen also honored Assistant Prosecutor Matthew Bogner’s request that a bail source hearing must be held if Graham opts to post bail. Conditions of the bail include no contact with the victim and no return to the scene of the crime, Webster said.
A bail source hearing is conducted at the request of the prosecutor or judge as a means to ensure that the funds used to post bail or secure a bail bond were not acquired as a result of criminal or unlawful conduct, Webster said.
If convicted, Graham faces up to 20 years for the attempted murder charge and five to 10 years for each count of the weapons offenses. He would be ineligible for early release.
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