NORTH BERGEN, NJ – Bergen County mass shooter Jonathan Haughey-Morales, 30, of West New York, was sentenced to 71 years in New Jersey State Prison for the 2019 mass shooting in North Bergen that killed Carlos Garcia and seriously injured three others.
According to police records, on Sunday, May 5, 2019, at approximately 3:30 a.m., the North Bergen Police Department responded to a report of shots fired at 2033 46th Street in North Bergen.
“Responding officers found four individuals, including an unresponsive male with an apparent gunshot wound to his torso, shot in the home,” the North Bergen Police Department reported at the time. “The male, later identified as Carlos Garcia, 40, and the additional victims — two males and one female — were all transported by Emergency Medical Services to Jersey City Medical Center. Garcia was pronounced dead at approximately 4:25 a.m.”
Haughey-Morales was identified as the suspect wanted in connection with the shooting and apprehended in South Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, the following day.