JERSEY CITY — Shiquan Bellamy, the Jersey City resident accused of killing five people last year — including an engaged couple on Easter Sunday — was arraigned on Monday in Hudson County Superior Court on his third muder charge , according to Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio. DeFazio said Bellamy, 19, was in court to hear the reading of the murder charge against him regarding the March 27 death of Lamonte Wright. Wright, 20, of Woodlawn Avenue, was shot in the back with a shotgun while walking his girlfriend to her car at about 6 a.m. on Clerk Street near Myrtle Avenue.
DeFazio said Bellamy is also accused of the April 4 murders of Michael Muchioki, 27, and Nia Haqq, 25, the Jersey City couple shot outside their Randolph Avenue home after they returned from their engagement party. DeFazio said their case is scheduled to be heard by a grand jury next month.
And he is the prime suspect in the murders of Lester Thompson, 26, and Mileak Richardson, 17, both of Van Nostrand Avenue in Jersey City, who were shot in the head at about 4 a.m. at Woodlawn Avenue and Corcoran Street in Jersey City on Feb. 2, 2010. DeFazio said Bellamy has already appeared in court to hear the charges against him in the murders of Thompson and Richardson.
DeFazio said Bellamy’s lawyer entered a “not guilty” plea on behalf of his client.
Bellamy allegedly was involved in five of the 25 murders that occurred in Jersey City in 2010. DeFazio said a $6 million bail is still set on him. – Ricardo Kaulessar