Jurors have convicted a
man
of fatally shooting a woman in a passing vehicle as she drove along Route 33 in
Freehold Township with her boyfriend and 1-year-old daughter.
The panel in Monmouth
County found 40-year-old Kader Mustafa guilty of murder, endangering another
person and weapons offenses in the death of 24-year-old Sciasia Calhoun.
Prosecutors say Calhoun was
driving late at night on May 3, 2018, when her vehicle passed Mustafa’s.
Prosecutors say he followed
her on the highway. They say he flashed his vehicle's high beams and opened
fire, shooting her in the head. Her boyfriend and child were not injured.
Prosecutors called it a random shooting.
Mustafa faces a minimum of 30
years in prison.
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