A Monmouth County grand jury returned an indictment on Nov. 17 charging a Neptune Township man with shooting two men outside a Freehold Borough eatery in 2014, Monmouth County Acting Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced.
Timothy Parrish, 28, is charged in the indictment with two counts of first degree attempted murder, one count each of first degree unlawful possession of a weapon, second degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and second degree certain persons not to have weapons.
Parrish is being held on $1.5 million bail with no 10 percent option as set by state Superior Court Judge Honora O’Brien Kilgallen, according to a press release from the prosecutor’s office.
The charges stem from the Dec. 27, 2014, shooting outside the Metropolitan Café, Main Street. At 1:58 a.m., Freehold Borough police officers responded to a report of shots fired outside the eatery. The officers found two Howell men, ages 35 and 39, with gunshot wounds. Both men were taken to a hospital for treatment.
Parish was arrested on Jan. 8, 2015, and charged and jailed in connection with the incident, according to a previous News Transcript article.
If convicted of attempted murder, Parrish faces a minimum sentence of 20 years to a maximum of life in state prison, subject to the provisions of the No Early Release Act, requiring him to serve 85 percent of the sentence imposed before becoming eligible for release on parole, according to the prosecutor.
Due to a previous firearms conviction, if Parrish is convicted of attempted murder or unlawful possession of a weapon, he faces a mandatory extended-term sentence between 20 years to life imprisonment in state prison.
Either sentence would further be subject to the provisions of the Graves Act, requiring him to serve a minimum of 42 months in prison before he is eligible for parole.
If convicted of possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, Parrish faces a mandatory extended term sentence of up to 20 years in prison, subject to the provisions of the Graves Act.
If convicted of certain persons not to have weapons, Parrish faces an additional prison sentence between five and 10 years, according to the prosecutor.