Plainfield men sentenced for murder at West Front Street traffic light
Two Plainfield men have been sentenced to long prison terms for a 2021 shooting in their city that left a woman dead and a man paralyzed.
Jahaad Ingram, 23, and Zaire Wallace, 30, each were sentenced to 78 years in state prison for first-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder, second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon and second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, Union County Prosecutor William Daniel announced.
Plainfield police responded around 1:55 p.m. July 9, 2021, to the intersection of West Front Street and Rock Avenue where they found a man and a woman with gunshots wounds.
Jennifer Vorn, 24, of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, was pronounced dead at the scene. The unidentified man was taken to the hospital and survived but is permanently paralyzed, according to the prosecutor’s office.
Testimony at trial revealed that on the day of the shooting, Ingram and Wallace followed the victims in their vehicle, eventually stopping at a traffic light at West Front Street and Rock Avenue, where both men got out of their black Buick SUV with handguns and fired at least 16 rounds into the victims’ vehicle.
Around 8 p.m. that same night, Wallace was stopped driving the black Buick, and Ingram was found nearby at the Joanne Hollis apartment courtyard, authorities said.
The two were convicted in November following a two-week trial before Union County Superior Court Judge John Deitch.
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