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5 Shot in Newark, N.J.; 3 Dead

(09-02) 23:51 PDT Newark, N.J. (AP) --

Three people were shot to death and two others were wounded Saturday in what authorities say was a targeted attack at an apartment.

Police responding to reports of gunfire around 4:30 a.m. in the city's Vailsburg section discovered the three dead in the apartment, which was engulfed in flames. They had been shot multiple times.

Killed were Sandra Bellush, 42, a tenant in the apartment; Brielle Simpkins, 15, of Elizabeth; and Eric Jackson, 19, of Newark.

Police also found a 17-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man at the building, but it was not clear if they were in the apartment. They were identified only as Newark residents.

Both were taken to University Hospital. A hospital spokesman said
the teenager was treated for a single gunshot wound and released, while the man, who was shot several times, remained in fair condition Saturday afternoon.

Authorities said they believed the shootings were carried out by more than one assailant. The victims did not appear to be blood relatives, they said.

There were no signs of robbery or forced entry into the building, a house that had been converted into apartments, Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow said.

A dog and a cat were also shot to death, Dow said.

"This was a targeted attack by heinous individuals," Mayor Corey Booker said at a news conference. "This is Newark, New Jersey, and this is not acceptable."

Arson investigators think the fire was intentional, said Paul Loriquet, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office.

"They're quite sure the fire was set to cover up the shootings," he said.

The rest of the building suffered minor damage.

The shootings brought to 77 the number of slayings in Newark
, a city of about 280,000.

Dow and Booker said the building had no history of drug activity. A former resident of the neighborhood echoed that assessment.

"It's not a drug area, a high-crime area," said Harcourt Lucious, who used to live a few blocks from the building before moving to nearby Irvington. "This is an odd place for something like this to happen.
 
Nice find Revanche, and interesting. Without any doubt, this is the Brielle Simkins mentioned in the news article.

I speculate that young Brielle was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. I will persue this story as it developes. :confused:
 
Update

A knock, gunfire and flames

Police 'close' to an arrest as eyewitness says victim knew men, opened door

Monday, September 04, 2006

BY BRAD PARKS, AMISHA PADNANI AND SULEMAN DIN
Star-Ledger Staff

An unlikely collection of acquaintances -- including a horse trainer, a cheerleader and an aspiring rapper -- were just getting ready for bed early Saturday morning in a Newark apartment when there was a knock on the door.

The cheerleader answered it and, according to an eyewitness, appeared to know the three men who entered.

"She opened the door, some dudes came in and they shot my (friends) 18 times and they killed my girl," the eyewitness told
The Star-Ledger yesterday in a series of brief interviews. "That's all I know."

The 17-year-old eyewitness, who is not being identified by the newspaper because suspects are still at large, was one of five people shot in the city's most violent rampage since 2004. The bullets killed three: Brielle Simpkins, 15, an Elizabeth High School cheerleader; Eric Jackson, 19, an aspiring rapper from Newark; and Sandra Bellush, 42, a horse trainer and the apartment's primary tenant.

The assailants, police said, then set fire to the apartment to cover up the crime scene. But two wounded young men -- the one interviewed yesterday and a 20-year-old who remained hospitalized -- survived the shooting and flames.

And they now appear to be leading authorities toward a break in the case.

A spokesman for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office yesterday said law enforcement officials are "close" to making an arrest but did not want to jeopardize the investigation by sayin
g too much.

"There's no question we're close," said Paul Loriquet, the spokesman. "We've got very solid leads. Witnesses are coming to us with credible information."

In an interview, the 17-year-old survivor said he saw the faces of all three assailants and, while he did not know the men, he could iden tify them.

Why they were there, who they were after or what motivated the crime remains uncertain.

The relationship of the victims and how they came to be in the same apartment sometime after 4 a.m. on a holiday weekend also is unclear. The eyewitness did say he had known Bellush through a friend who used to buy lottery tickets for her. He also said she was trying to help Eric Jackson get his music career started, though little else about Jackson is known. Relatives said Simpkins was dating the 17-year-old.

A tour of the apartment yesterday afternoon offered other small clues to what unfolded there. A smeared trail of blood snaked through the kitchen, out the back door and
down the back steps. There also was blood splattered on the walls of the back bedroom and in some of the bedding on the floor.

The eyewitness said some of the blood was his. He said after being shot, he staggered down those back steps and pounded on the door to the downstairs apart ment.

"Let me in, I just got shot," he remembered saying.

The residents, he said, did not open the door, but did call police.

By the time authorities ar rived, the building was ablaze. Several neighbors described the apartment as a drug house, with visitors constantly going in and out and loud parties late at night. Yet even underneath the layer of ash and soot that covered its contents yesterday, it appeared to be a place where people once lived comfortably.

There were drapes on the windows, overstuffed throw pillows on the furniture, an assortment of Garnier Fructis hair care products in the bathroom. In the back bedroom, a fully loaded Compaq Presario sat undamaged beneath some rubble.

T
he pantry was well-stocked with durable goods. The refrigerator contained everything from pomegranate juice to a margarine spread fortified with calcium. In one corner of the kitchen, a bag of dog food remained almost un touched by the flames. A friend of Bellush's said she had a dog named Keanu and a cat named Samantha. Newark police said both pets were killed.

Neighbors said they often saw her walking the dog, a large breed. Bellush had only moved into the neighborhood recently but stood out, neighbors said. In a predominately African-American and Hispanic neighborhood, Bellush, who was white, tall and slender, often wore her long blond hair in braids.

More at the link.
 
Mass chimp-out scatters viewers at Brielle's wake.

Teen's wake turns to chaos

Mourners for Newark shooting victim flee amid gun fears

Friday, September 08, 2006

BY JONATHAN CASIANO AND JOHN MOONEY
Star-Ledger Staff

Tears of sadness turned to screams last night at a wake for a 15-year-old girl killed last week in a Newark rampage when another victim of the shootings exploded in fury, sending some 400 mourners scrambling under pews and out of the church.

Those inside the Irvington church said the frenzy was touched off when the 17-year-old boy started arguing with another person inside the sanctuary, and a gun may have been seen or brandished.


No guns
hots were fired, Irvington police said, and there were no arrests or guns recovered. There were no serious injuries.

"As best I determine, there was some concern as a result of parties that may have been at the event. That was not verified because of the alarm and the lack of control," said Irvington Police Chief Michael Chase, declining to elaborate. "In the interest of safety, we discontinued the viewing at that time."

It remains unclear what actually happened inside Christian Pentecostal Church on Clinton Avenue, where Brielle Simpkins lay in an open casket. But there was no mistaking the fear on mourners' faces as they ran onto the street just before 7 p.m.

"It was crazy chaos in there, pandemonium," said Cliff Hammond, a cousin of the deceased.

Fleeing mourners scattered a line of 300 friends and family waiting outside to pay their respects to the Elizabeth High school cheerleader killed last Saturday morning.

Simpkins was one of three p
eople shot and killed inside a second-floor apartment in the Vailsburg section of Newark. Eric Jackson, 19, and Sandra Bellush, 42, both of Newark, also were killed. The 17-year-old was shot in the arm, while another 20-year-old Newark man also was shot and remains in fair condition at University Hospital. The apartment was set ablaze in an apparent attempt to cover up the crime.

The case remains under investigation, with no arrests yet made.

The 17-year-old is not being identified due to the open investigation


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Long Dismal Saga of a wasted Crackhead and Her companions on the Nigger planet.

How a troubled life ended in 3 violent deaths

Piecing together events that led up to grisly Newark shootings

Sunday, September 10, 2006

It was pouring rain and barely light outside when arson investigators arrived at the charred house on Sandford Avenue in Newark around 6:20 a.m. Sept. 2, the gloomy Saturday that kicked off the Labor Day weekend.

In the center of the blocked-off street lay three bodies covered with white sheets, lying face-up in a row. Firefighters earlier had brought the dead down from the second-floor apartment at No.546, believing they had succumbed to smoke. The investigators pass
ed the sodden mound and walked into the house.

Just then the medical examiner pulled up to the curb. The cops securing the scene held umbrellas over the bodies as the physician bent down and lifted the sheets. It was immediately clear that these people -- a woman and two teenagers -- were not victims of the fire.

They had been shot to death first, and the house had been torched to cover their killers' tracks.

In the apartment upstairs, the investigators encountered a scene from hell. A stream of bloody water flowed through the soaked room in the front, where a large Bernese mountain dog lay dead of gunshot wounds near the remains of an empty bird cage. The room to the left had been annihilated by flames and water. To the rear was a hallway, two bedrooms, a kitchen, a bathroom and a dead cat. Computer-generated pictures of a woman with a group of teenagers lay next to a computer. Dozens of shellcasings were scattered on the floors. Nearly every room was spattered with blood.

On a s
mall back porch they discovered a survivor, under a grill: an African parrot. "Hello," it said, and whistled. The arson investigators located a package of crackers and fed it.

Two other survivors, young men ages 17 and 20, were waiting outside when the authorities arrived. The older one was taken to a hospital with serious gunshot wounds. The younger man had a minor wound to the arm.

Even in Newark, gripped this summer by a seemingly endless tide of violence, this was a horrific crime. One week later, it remains unsolved and there have been no arrests. But a terrifying picture is beginning to emerge of a drug-addicted woman from the suburbs who found acceptance living among young people in the city and pulled them with her into a night of mayhem.

The dead woman was Sandra Bellush, 42, a long-haired animal lover who trained horses and taught riding in the rolling hills of New Jersey's horse country before moving to Newark. The murdered teens were Brielle Simpkins, 15, of Elizabeth, and Er
ic Jackson, 19, of Newark. Jackson had a juvenile record of one arrest; Simpkins had none. The two young men who survived the shootings were also from the area.

Authorities have been mum about the killings, except to say there were three assailants. But, according to law enforcement sources and a friend of one of the victims, they suspect the massacre resulted from a series of conflicts Bellush and some of her young friends had with the assailants. One dispute involved a loan Bellush made, involving thousands of dollars, according to the sources, who were granted anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. Bellush, they said, had not been repaid and had been trying to collect. On the night of the murders, the two groups clashed several times, according to police sources.

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Well Dragasès, this is certainly looking more and more like one of those classic TNB stories.

Authorities have been mum about the killings, except to say there were three assailants. But, according to law enforcement sources and a friend of one of the victims, they suspect the massacre resulted from a series of conflicts Bellush and some of her young friends had with the assailants. One dispute involved a loan Bellush made, involving thousands of dollars, according to the sources, who were granted anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. Bellush, they said, had not been repaid and had been trying to collect. On the night of the murders, the two groups clashed several times, according to police sources.
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I don't know if Bellush is white or negroid but it appears she broke
Rule #1 -> never ever give a loan to a nigger.

By her taking a chance to "help out" some "go
od boys" "down on their luck" with a little loan, she unwittingly signed her future death certificate.
 
Bellush had only moved into the neighborhood recently but stood out, neighbors said. In a predominately African-American and Hispanic neighborhood, Bellush, who was white, tall and slender, often wore her long blond hair in braids.
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From the post on 9/4/06
 
Update:

Bloods member wanted in killings

Newarker once lived in ill-fated apartment

Tuesday, September 12, 2006
BY JONATHAN SCHUPPE
Star-Ledger Staff

A Newark gang member with an arrest history dating to his childhood -- including a murder charge that was dismissed in 2003 -- is being sought by police for taking part in last week's triple killing in a Sandford Avenue apartment.

Raheem Clay, 23, was one of three attackers who on Sept. 2 entered the apartment where a 42-year-old woman, three young men and a 15-year-old girl were staying, police said. At least one of the intruders opened fire with a handgun, killing three of the victims and injuring the other two.

The trio th
en torched the second-floor apartment in an apparent attempt to cover their tracks. It was Newark's bloodiest homicide since the Nov. 26, 2004, execution-style slaying of four people near Ludlow Street.

It is unclear what role Clay played in the killings, police said, but investigators determined his involvement within hours of the crime and immediately obtained a warrant for his arrest. But they kept his identity quiet as the Newark Police Department, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office and the U.S. Marshals Service combed the city and surrounding towns for him.

Law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation said yesterday that Clay is a member of the Bloods street gang and for a time lived in the Sandford Avenue apartment.

The apartment was rented by Sandra Bellush, a drug-addicted former horse trainer who had moved to Newark from Morris County. The younger people with her the night of the killings were Eric Jackson, 19, an aspiring rapper; Brielle Simpkins, 15, a cheerleade
r from Elizabeth; her 17-year-old boyfriend and another young man, 20.

The 17-year-old and the 20-year-old survived the attack. Authorities have not identified them because they are witnesses.

In addition to Clay, police have identified one other assailant, but they are still in the process of getting a warrant for his arrest. The third attacker has not been identified.

Acting Newark Police Chief Anthony Campos said he was "pleased" with investigators' progress.

"I am confident that in the upcoming days, at least the first two suspects will be arrested and held accountable for their atrocious actions," he said.

Campos urged anyone who knows something about the killings to call the Newark Police Department's Homicide Squad at (973) 733-5400 or the Essex County Prosecutor's Office at (973) 621-4586. The Essex County Sheriff's Department also is offering a $10,000 Crime Stoppers reward for information that leads to the arrest of the killers.

Investigators are still p
iecing together a motive for the attack. So far, they've determined this much: The killers clashed several times in the past with the people in the Sandford Avenue apartment, and one of the disputes involved a loan of several thousand dollars Bellush was trying to recoup from one of the attackers. Law enforcement sources also said yesterday that one of Bellush's friends from the apartment had assaulted one of the attackers days before the killings.

Clay has been in and out of jail for nearly half his life, starting when he was arrested for lewdness at 14. He got 18 months' probation. At 17, he was arrested for drug possession, the first of a string of narcotics charges that continued into 2006, according to court records.

Most of the charges were dismissed or downgraded to municipal court, court records show. The exception was a conviction on a 2001 weapons charge for which he was sentenced to six months in jail, and a 2005 drug charge to which he pleaded guilty but did not show up in court f
or sentencing. He was indicted in March on a string of drug charges but did not show up for his arraignment. He is considered a fugitive for those two cases as well, court records show.

Clay also beat a murder charge in 2003. He and another Newark man were accused of shooting Keith Edwards, a 37-year-old career criminal who had escaped from a state Department of Corrections halfway house. But prosecutors dropped the case after a key witness went missing, a spokesman for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said.

The prosecutor's office declined further comment about Clay
 
Damn...thanks for pointing it out.

Bellush had only moved into the neighborhood recently but stood out, neighbors said. In a predominately African-American and Hispanic neighborhood, Bellush, who was white, tall and slender, often wore her long blond hair in braids.
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I'm moving this to white victims of nigger crime.
 
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John Wessells

Suspect arrested in triple fatal Newark shooting

Newark Police say they arrested a man and charged him in the fatal shooting of three people earlier this month in a house that was later set on fire in order to cover up the crime.

Twenty-four-year-old John Wessells of Newark is charged with three counts of murder, attempted murder and weapons charges.

Newark Police are still looking for Wessells' alleged accomplice, Raheem Clay, who is charged with conspiracy to commit murder -- as well as another unidentified suspect.

It began just after 4:30 Saturday morning in Newark. Reports of shots fired at Stanford Street and Southpoint Avenue and then a two-alarm fire here on the second floor of this two
family home. Inside, police say, five people were shot multiple times and three of them dead, along with a cat and a dog.

The fire was allegedly set by the killers to cover up their crime.

Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow: "We are pleased with this development. ... It will help quell a palpable fear in the community about their safety."

But officials couldn't or wouldn't say the relationship between the victims or any theory behind the attack, only that those killed include: 42-year-old tenant Sandra Bellush, 15-year-old Brielle Simkins of Elizabeth, New Jersey and 19-year-old Eric Jackson of Newark.

Two other people were shot and injured in the attack. The other victims, a 17-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man, are recovering from gunshot wounds.

Right now, Wessells is being held on $2 million dollars bail in the Essex County Jail.
 
This is from CrimeBlog.US

Sandra Bellush
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From Sandra Bellush's myspace identified at CrimeBlog.US
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This is the profile pic for mookie_5 thought to be Brielle Simkins at CrimeBlog.US

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This is from the myspace thought to be of Eric Jackson :
to your right is me,the left is my brother

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In Revanche's early post here there is a link to a genealogy site which features the ancestry of Brielle Simpkins. About 5 generations back she had a female ancestor in Jamaica who was white. There is a photo. Subsequently they appear to have been a family of mulattoes (or quadroons or even octaroons) who carefully married others like themselves for several generations.
 
Further details of the squalid crash and burn of a crackhead sojourner on the planet Neguranus.

'Good worker' charged in Newark triple homicide

His reunion with fellow movers ends abruptly in an arrest yesterday

Wednesday, September 13, 2006
BY JONATHAN SCHUPPE
Star-Ledger Staff

When John Wessells showed up for work at 6:45 a.m. yesterday at Brantley Bros. Moving and Storage in Newark, his co-workers welcomed him back with handshakes. They hadn't seen him since midsummer, when he was jumped and beaten so badly he was unable to earn a paycheck.

Fifteen minutes later, homicide detectives broke up the reunion, arresting Wessells, 24, for allegedly shooting three people to death in a Sandford Avenue apartment on Sept.
2.

Authorities believe Wessells was one of three men who entered the second-floor dwelling and shot five people, three of them fatally, then set fire to the apartment to cover up the crime.

Law enforcement authorities said they hope Wessells' arrest will help them piece together the events that led to Newark's bloodiest homicide in nearly two years.

Wessells and another accomplice, identified as Raheem Clay, spent a lot of time at the apartment and had been feuding with the tenant, Sandra Bellush, a 42-year-old drug addict and former horse trainer, and some of her friends in the weeks leading up to the killings, authorities said.

One dispute, they said, was over a repayment of money Bellush had lent to one of the attackers. Another involved the beating Wessells sustained in the summer.

Authorities believe the feud culminated with the Sept. 2 attack.

Around 4:30 that morning, authorities said, Wessells, Clay, 23, a member of the Bloods street gang who is still at large, and a man police hav
e not publicly identified entered Bellush's apartment.

Wessells then allegedly shot and killed Bellush, who had moved from Morris County to the Sandford Avenue apartment in July; Brielle Simpkins, a 15-year-old cheerleader from Elizabeth, and Eric Jackson, 19, an aspiring rapper from East Orange, according to a complaint filed by the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.

Two other young men, ages 17 and 20, were also shot, but survived and are now considered witnesses

More at the link
 
"Good worker?" That's even better than City Man.
 
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