A Newark man has been sentenced to 61 years and six months in prison for two shootings that left one man dead and three others wounded, authorities announced Thursday.
Dajuan Fiester, 40, was convicted of first-degree murder back in April for the killing of 38-year-old Julius Ferguson in May 2023, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.
Fiester also wounded two other men — Michael Newby, a 25-year-old East Orange resident, and Daniel Campbell, a 22-year-old Newark man — in the shooting, officials said.
“While no amount of time can ever replace a life lost, we hope that this sentence brings some form of closure to Mr. Ferguson’s family as well as the additional victims,” Essex County Assistant Prosecutor Julianne Bollettieri said in a press release. “Gun violence cannot be tolerated, and these senseless acts cannot go unpunished.”
Ferguson, Newby and Campbell were all shot while outside a bar on Orange Street in Newark on May 7, 2023, police said. While investigating, cops matched a gun used in the shooting to another shooting in Newark on Aug. 6, 2022.
Fiester was convicted of second-degree assault for the 2022 incident and 11 different charges for the deadly 2023 shooting.
