TRENTON
– Attorney General Anne Milgram announced
that a Camden County man was sentenced today
after pleading guilty to shooting his girlfriend’s
daughter in the right knee.
According
to Criminal Justice Director Deborah L. Gramiccioni,
Roshon Pace, aka Roshon Fussell, 30, of Camden,
was ordered by Superior Court Judge Richard
Wells in Camden County to serve seven years
in state prison. Under the No Early Release
Act, Pace must serve 85% of his sentence before
becoming eligible for parole. The sentence
is based on Pace’s guilty plea to aggravated
assault, a charge contained in a Feb. 20,
2008 Camden County grand jury indictment.
In
pleading guilty on July 7, Pace admitted that
on March 10, 2007, he got into a verbal argument
with his girlfriend while she was sitting
in her car outside of her house. Pace admitted
that he had a gun in his hand at the time
and fired it into the ground. The girlfriend’s
daughter, who was 22 years old at the time,
was inside her mother’s house and heard
the gunshot. She ran outside to intervene
in the fight and to help her mother. Pace
admitted that after the daughter ran out to
help her mother, he shot her once in the knee.
The victim was taken to Cooper Hospital where
she was treated and released approximately
three days later.
New
Jersey State Police Detective Daniel DeLucia
coordinated the investigation and Deputy Attorney
General Kristen Harberg prosecuted the case
for the Division of Criminal Justice. State
Police Detective Sgts. John Day and James
South, Camden Police Department Officers Keith
James and Stephen Baker, and Investigators
Valerie Hecker and Cathy Fisher and Sergeant
Aida Marcial of the Camden County Prosecutor's
Office were also part of the investigative
team.
Under
the CeaseFire program, the Shoot Team in Camden
responds to all non-fatal shootings within
the city limits of Camden, conducting an intensive
investigation of each shooting as if it were
a homicide. Cases are handled by the Camden
County Prosecutor’s Office and the Division
of Criminal Justice.
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