Prosecutors say arrests have been made in the recent shooting deaths of Cheyanne Bond and Brendan Telvin.
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray gave details at a news conference Monday afternoon.
Arrests made for the murder of Cheyanne Bond and Brendan Telvin
Three arrests were announced in the murder of Brendan Tevlin, a 19-year-old Livingston resident who had just completed his first year at the University of Richmond. He was found shot to death in his car.
Recent Malcolm Shabazz H.S. graduate, 17-year-old Cheyanne Bond, was shot and killed walking home with a friend. She had plans to study nursing this fall.
Suspects
Prosecutors announced police have arrested four suspects in connection with the unrelated shooting deaths of the two Essex County teenagers. The motive in both shooting deaths was robbery, officials said.
Suspects clockwise from top left: Ali Muhammad Brown, 29; Jeremy Villagran, 19; Andre Fields, 31; and Eric Williams, 18. Brown, Villagran and Williams are charged in Brendan Tevlin’s slaying. Fields is charged in the death of Cheyanne Bond.
Source: Essex County’s Prosecutor’s Office
Andre Fields, 31, of Irvington was charged in the death of 17-year-old Cheyanne Bond. Police said her assault began as an iPhone robbery.
Three men, including a double-murder suspect from Seattle, were charged in the death of 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin, a Livingston resident who had just returned home from his first year of college at the University of Richmond in Virginia. Tevlin was found shot to death inside a SUV on June 25. Prosecutors said the suspects robbed Tevlin of several personal items.
According to Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray, Tevlin was in his grandfather’s car heading home the night of his death, when a car carrying three men pulled up alongside him at a traffic light.
West Orange resident Eric Williams, 18, stayed behind the wheel while Villagran and Brown — already wanted for the shooting death of two gay men in Seattle on June 1 — hopped out and surrounded Tevlin’s Jeep Liberty, according to authorities.
“He was, at this time, a simple victim of an intent to rob,” Murray said.
Bond was walking on the 500 block of South 17th Street near Westside Park in Newark’s South Ward June 29 when she and a male friend were approached by two armed men, who demanded they hand over an iPhone, according to Murray.
She was shot once in the head during the encounter, authorities said, killing her. Her companion was also shot, but managed to survive.
Both investigations are ongoing, and additional charges may still be filed.
Bond was a member of the cheerleading squad at Shabazz High School, from which she had graduated just nine days before her death. School officials described her as a quiet and dedicated student who had planned to study nursing at Union County College in the fall.
Tevlin was the eldest of four children and a popular presence in Livingston and at Seton Hall Prep, where he graduated high school last year.
Source : nj.com
