After a lengthy investigation that spanned more than four years, an Asbury Park man has been arrested and charged in the slaying of a 23-year-old Daniel Graves who was gunned down on a city street, the Monmouth County prosecutor said.
Dominique Moore, 25, was charged with the first-degree murder of Daniel Graves and second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, according to APP.com. Moore is being held in the Monmouth County jail pending a detention hearing.
That night Asbury Park police responded to multiple reports of gun fire on Bangs and Dewitt Avenue where they found Graves body. According to APP.com, moments before Graves was shot, he had eaten at a local pizzeria and, upon exiting, was “followed by a small group.”
Elexander Fitzgerald, Graves’s father, told the Press in 2015 that his son had left Mr. Pizza, a restaurant on Springwood Avenue, to head to a friend’s house, but ran into a confrontation with gang members outside of the pizzeria.
If convicted of murder, Moore faces a minimum of 30 years in state prison — of which he would serve 85 percent, subject to the No Early Release Act — or a life sentence.
If found guilty of the weapons charge, Moore could face up to 10 years in prison, where he would have to serve a mandatory minimum of one-third of the sentence or three-and-a-half-years. Whichever is greater between the two charges, Graves would not get parole.
