Jersey City man acquitted of 2008 murder sentenced to 16 years on weapons offenses

May 31, 2012, 12:13 PM
By Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal

A self-professed "five-star general' in the Bloods street gang was sentenced to 16 years in prison this morning for weapons possession in connection with a 2008 murder of a Jersey City man.

Darnell Reeves, 26, of Jersey City, was sentenced to 16 years for possession of weapon by a convicted felon and eight years for unlawful weapon of a weapon by Superior Court Judge Lisa Rose, with the sentences to run concurrently. Reeves had been acquitted of the most serious charge, the murder of Henry Molesky.

Reeves, who has been in jail three years since his arrest, must serve eight years before becoming eligible for parole.
At the sentencing, Reeves noted that he has already served three years and asked the judge for leniency.

"If it would be possible to take it easy on me at the sentencing it would be appreciated," Reeves said. "It truly would be a blessing."

In handing down the sentence, Rose noted that Reeves has three prior criminal convictions and a disorderly persons conviction, which made him eligible for a longer sentence as a persistent offender. Reeves was facing up to 20 years in prison.

It was also pointed out in court that during the trial Reeves admitted he was a high-ranking member of the Bloods street gang.

Molesly, 41, was killed by a single gunshot wound to the head on Dec. 14, 2008 during a robbery gone wrong.

Reeve?s half-brother, Nicquan Scott, was accused of participating in the Molesky killing. Scott was similarly acquitted of murder charges but found guilty of a weapons offense after his 2010 trial. Scott was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

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5 years?! That's the real crime

Acquitted of murder, Jersey City man gets 10 years in prison for weapons offenses

Saturday, February 26, 2011, 10:33 PM
By Michaelangelo Conte/The Jersey Journal

A Jersey City man was sentenced to 10 years in prison today for weapons offenses after being acquitted in December of the cold-blooded execution-style murder of a man shot in the back of the head on a city street in 2008, officials said.

Nicquan Scott, 22, aka "Beans," of Bergen Avenue, must serve five years of the sentence meted out today by Hudson County Superior Court Judge Fred Theemling before becoming eligible for parole.

On Dec. 2 a jury acquitted Scott in the Dec. 12, 2008 murder of Henry Molesky, 41, of Woodlawn Avenue, who was shot in the head near his parked car on Clinton Street near West Side Avenue.

At trial prosecutors said Molesky was killed using a "community gun" and the jury did convict Scott of being in possession of that gun, as well as another weapon offense.

"He is a very evil individual with no regard for human life," said the victim's wife, Kim Molesky, in a statement read at the sentencing today by Victim Witness Advocate Jo Ellen Kirk. "I am numb. I still keep thinking that I am going to wake up from this nightmare and that my husband and the father of my children is still alive."

The victim's wife cried from a courtroom bench during the sentencing.

Scott's half-brother, Darnell Reeves, 26, is also charged in the murder and prosecutors say Reeves was the trigger man in the killing, motivated by a dispute over money. At trial, prosecutors showed a videotaped interview in which Scott says he watched Reeves kill Molesky.

Reeves has not yet been tried and prosecutors had hoped to persuade Scott to testify against him at trial, but he has refused all plea deals offered. Because of that, the case against Reeves may be weaker than it might have been otherwise.

Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Stephen Dill said in the past that the prospect of Scott serving more time than the alleged gunman "offends our sense of justice and we would rather see that person who is the most responsible serve the lion's share of the prison sentence."

Dill said Scott's statement implicating his brother is "very powerful," but it cannot be used as evidence against Reeves now. To be entered as evidence in the Reeves trial, Scott would have to be willing to take the stand because a defendant has the right to confront his accuser

Don't buy or use drugs

or was that the price of fish they couldn't agree on ?

The punishment for shooting a teacher from an urban school district should be as serious as for shooting a cop.

Its about time they got caught! Good job!!!

Seize 2 in Greenville gun murder

Thursday, May 07, 2009

Two more men have been arrested on charges they murdered a Jersey City man who was shot in the head on a Greenville street last year, and following their court appearance yesterday both were held on $750,000 cash-only bails.

Darnell Reeves, 25, aka "Big D," of Clinton Avenue, and his half-brother, Nicquan Scott, 20, aka "Beans," of Bergen Avenue, are charged with fatally shooting Henry Molesky, 41, of Woodlawn Avenue, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said yesterday.

The Dec. 12 shooting was at 10:30 p.m. near where Molesky had parked his car on Clinton Street near Westside Avenue, and the father of four teenage children died two days later.

"There was a verbal confrontation between Mr. Molesky and Mr. Reeves over money and it grew quite heated," DeFazio said.

"We allege that Scott went, retrieved a handgun on behalf of Mr. Reeves, handed it to him, and at that point or shortly after Mr. Reeves used it to shoot Henry Molesky in the head, causing his death."

Days after the shooting, Timothy Williams, 25, of Jersey City, was charged with murdering Molesky, but homicide detectives suspect he played a lesser role, DeFazio said.

The brothers were arrested late Tuesday afternoon on Clinton Avenue, DeFazio said. Reeves was out on bail following his indictment on charges including aggravated assault on a police officer and attempting to disarm a law enforcement officer, DeFazio said.

MICHAELANGELO CONTE

This is a sickening story. What a horrible thing to have happen.

Jersey City man arrested on charges he shot and killed father of four Friday night

Posted by kthorbou December 15, 2008 21:26PM

Reena Rose Sibyan/The Jersey Journal

Timothy Williams is arraigned at Central Judicial Processing Court in Jersey City from the Hudson County Jail in Kearny via video link on the charge of shooting to death Henry Molesky, 41, of Woodlawn Avenue, Monday, December 15, 2008

A 25-year-old Jersey City man has been charged in in the shooting death of a married father of four who was a teacher at Dickinson High School, officials said today.

Arrested Sunday on an unrelated domestic violence charge, Timothy Williams, 25, of Jersey City, has now been charged with the murder of Henry Molesky, 41, of Woodlawn Avenue, who died early Sunday from a single gunshot to his head, officials said.

Molesky was shot Friday night.

Williams made his first appearance on the murder charges in Central Judicial Processing court this morning via a video link with the Hudson County Jail in Kearny. He stared at the floor and shook his head as CJP Judge Richard Nieto told him his bail was $750,000 cash only.

The suspect's mother and family were in courtroom when he appeared on the screen. Giggles broke out among his family when Williams appeared with disheveled hair. But by the end of the brief hearing, many where in tears.

"Thank God, because that man should be taken off the streets," Molesky's wife, Kim, when told about the arrest. "He just took a father, a husband, a son away from a family."

Investigators are not certain of the motive for the killing, which took place 10:30 p.m. Friday, near where Molesky had parked his car on Clinton Street near West Side Avenue. But Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said, "We think it was due to some sort of dispute that happened earlier that night."

Sources said Molesky, a father of four teenage children, made a purchase at an area liquor store that night and was robbed after he left. DeFazio said investigators have not verified this information.

Detectives have recovered security video from the area of the murder and are in the process of determining if it captured the crime, DeFazio said.

The prosecutor said Williams was picked up by police on Sunday and charged with aggravated assault related to an alleged domestic violence incident.

Nieto said in court that Williams allegedly put a gun to a woman's head and told her he was going to kill her.

Because the bail on the aggravated assault charge had not yet been set, Nieto ordered Williams held at least until that bail is also set.

There are also warrants for Williams' arrest out of Jersey City Municipal Court on charges including drinking in public, officials said.

An auto mechanic, Molesky began teaching an adult class in auto repair at Dickinson High School in September, his wife said.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office at (201) 915-1345.
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Thank you JCPD and Homicide Unit for getting this piece of crap off our streets....

TEACHER IS KILLED
Dad of four found with shot to head

Monday, December 15, 2008
By CHARLES HACK
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

Leaving a grieving wife and four teenage children behind, a Jersey City teacher died early yesterday morning after being shot in the head Friday night, officials said.

Henry Molesky, 41, of Woodlawn Avenue, passed away at the Jersey City Medical Center at 1 a.m., Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said.

Jersey City Police found Molesky with a single gunshot wound to the head near where his car was parked on Clinton Street near Westside Avenue at 10:30 p.m. on Friday after they responded to reports of a shooting, DeFazio said.

A man who was arrested in connection with an unrelated incident is being questioned about the shooting, DeFazio said, declining to provide further details.

"My husband was the most loving and caring man and would go out of his way to help everybody," Molesky's wife, Kim, said yesterday.

"He always went above and beyond for his children. He put himself second to make sure they got what they needed."

Kim Molesky, 38, who works as a secretary at Dickinson High School and School 38, said her husband, an auto mechanic, began teaching an Adult School class in auto repair at Dickinson in September.

The Molesky family has four children: Joseph, 18; Justin, 16; and 15-year-old twins, Jonathan and Jillian.

Their second-floor apartment was half empty yesterday since, despite the tragedy, the family proceeded with plans to move into a nearby single-family home.

"That was our dream, to have a one-family home, but he didn't get to see that because of somebody in the street," Kim Molesky said.

Mrs. Molesky said she was at a Christmas party Friday when her daughter phoned to say her father went to the store, but hadn't returned.

Kim Molesky said she left the party and called her husband's cell phone five times, but no one answered.
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Finally, she said, a detective answered and told her he would pick her up and take her to the Jersey City Medical Center emergency room to see her husband.

Kim Molesky declined to respond when asked if she knew why her husband was at the location where he was shot.

DeFazio said investigators didn't know if any belongings of Henry Molesky were stolen after he was shot.

An autopsy was being conducted yesterday, he said.

"He was a hardworking person," Robert Molesky said about his brother yesterday.

"He provided for his family. He was definitely a family man."