So he wasn't arrested the first time, when he was pulled to be identified? If they had arrested him, or run his sheet, they could have had him the first time for the warrants... but perhaps not for the shooting.

Then again, if the victim knew the guy had other warrants and was going away to other states, perhaps he would have talked.

Cops: Own mouth betrayed him
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
By CHARLES HACK
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Soon after Jersey City's Emergency Services Unit officers located a shooting suspect hiding in a basement Friday morning they had to release him because the victim refused to cooperate, reports said.

But cops had a second chance to make the arrest when they caught the suspect scuffling with the victim's brother that afternoon, reports said.

Jemal Vick, 35, of Sheffield Street, was charged with possession of weapons, possession of weapons for unlawful purposes, aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and possession of marijuana, reports said.

Police responded to a call of shots fired at Sheffield Street and Ocean Avenue on Friday at 11:47 a.m., reports said.

While checking the area for witnesses, they overhead the victim talking to someone on his cell phone about the person who shot at him, but the victim refused to cooperate with police, reports said.

Following tips from witnesses, heavily armed members of the Emergency Services Unit found Vick hiding in a building on Sheffield Street near Ludlow Street, reports said.

But when they brought him to the police station for the victim to identify him, the victim again refused to cooperate, reports said.

But a short while later, police officers at Ocean and Danforth avenues helped break up a fight between two men who turned out to be Vick and the 37-year-old brother of the victim, reports said.

As the two men walked away from the scene, police overhead Vick say he fired a gun at the man's brother and would be doing the same thing to him, reports said.

Police then arrested Vick, who was wanted in New York State for a state parole violation and by Virginia State authorities for an outstanding warrant, reports said.