Bergen Lafayette: 2 separate incidents - Man shot when party turns deadly & teens stab man twice during robbery

Man shot when party turns deadly

Monday, November 19, 2007
By KEN THORBOURNE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A 20-year old Jersey City man was fatally shot Saturday morning on Forrest Street, after he asked a drunk partygoer to put away his gun, authorities said.

Christoph Felder, of Van Horne Street, died shortly after 4 a.m. at the Jersey City Medical Center from internal injuries he sustained from a gunshot to his abdomen, said Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio.

The alleged killer, Antoine Parker, 22, fled the scene and is on the run, DeFazio said. Parker, who witnesses said was drunk at the time of the shooting, is known to have residences on Monticello and Orient avenues, and should be considered armed and dangerous, DeFazio said.

Initially, when Parker produced a 9mm semi-automatic handgun, he was waving it around at nobody in particular, DeFazio said.

But when Felder asked him to put it away, he took offense and shot Felder, DeFazio said.

Yesterday Alicia Boykin, who told police she was in a separate room when the gunshot rang out, said she called 911. "I put the towel on him," Boykin said. "He was bleeding from his stomach."

Felder's family and girlfriend - who was also at the party, but in a different room when the shooting took place, according to police reports - couldn't be reached for comment yesterday.

Felder's murder is the 16th recorded in Jersey City this year, the 22nd for Hudson County. Jersey City tallied 22 murders last year, dramatically down from the 38 that took place in 2005.

Anyone with information about Parker's whereabouts should contact the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office Homicide Squad, at (201) 915-1345.

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Stabbed twice during robbery

Jersey Journal
Monday, November 19, 2007

Two Jersey City juveniles, ages 13 and 16, were arrested and charged Saturday night with robbing a Rose Avenue man who was stabbed twice in his back during the fracas, police said.

Responding to reports of a street fight on Randolph Avenue around 10 p.m., police found the two teens fighting each other - the 13-year-old on the ground, and the 16-year-old hovering over him, bleeding from the mouth, police said.

When they asked the victim who did it, he pointed to the 16-year-old, who immediately fled south on Randolph Avenue, but was caught by police at Carteret Avenue. The teens were charged with robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and unlawful possession of weapons, and the 16-year-old was also charged with resisting arrest, police said.

The 13-year-old appeared intoxicated and under the influence of narcotics, police added.

The victim was treated and released from the Jersey City Medical Center, police said.

KEN THORBOURNE