Fateem Moses (Photo: ECPO)
NEWARK — An Orange man was sentenced Friday to 23 years in state prison for the fatal shooting of a Newark man whose frozen remains were found in a driveway, prosecutors said.
Fateem Moses, 36, pleaded guilty in December to aggravated manslaughter and unlawful possession of a handgun stemming from the Feb. 14, 2016 slaying of Omar Faines, 31, of Newark, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced.
Moses shot Faines, of Newark, in a car and dumped his body on Rose Terrace in the city’s South Ward, according to Assistant Prosecutor Adam Wells, who handled the case. The victim was found the following morning.
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“Mr. Faines was brutally killed and dumped like trash in a driveway by a man who was close to him and his family,” Wells said in a statement. “That man will now spend more than two decades in a New Jersey State Prison for his crimes.”
Prosecutors said a motive for the killing was unclear but Moses was close with the victim’s family.
Moses must serve 85 percent of his prison term before being eligible for parole under the state’s No Early Release Act, Wells added.
He was arrested in March and initially charged with murder, according to authorities. Moses has a history of convictions for drugs-related offenses, theft and assault that spans Georgia, West Virginia and New Jersey.
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