A Superior Court jury convicted an Edison man of the 2011 fatal shooting in Plainfield.
Malcolm Bradley, 25, was convicted of killing a 31-year-old Plainfield man in 2011. (NJ Department of Corrections photo) ELIZABETH -- A 25-year-old Edison man currently serving a prison term on drug charges now has been convicted of the 2011 murder of a Plainfield man that occurred days before he was arrested.
Malcolm Bradley was convicted of murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and criminal restraint in connection with the death of 31-year-old Curtis Stroud, acting Union County Grace Park said Tuesday.
She said the jury returned the verdict Monday after three days of deliberations following a three-week trial.
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Authorities said that on March 16, 2011, Bradley and Stroud had an argument in a restaurant on Park Avenue at East Fifth Street in Plainfield.
Minutes later, Bradley followed Stroud out of the restaurant to the area of Berckman Street and South Avenue in Plainfield, where Bradley shot Stroud as he was seated in the backseat of a friend's car, said Union County Assistant Prosecutor Colleen Ruppert, who prosecuted the case.
Stroud's friends took him to an emergency room at Muhlenberg Hospital and left him at there, authorities said. They said Stroud was pronounced dead at 1:45 a.m.
Plainfield police and the Union County Homicide Task Force identified Bradley as a suspect and arrested him about two weeks after the shooting, Park said.
Bradley was also arrested on drug charges about 10 days after shooting, according to state records. On March 26, 2011, he was charged with possession and distribution of drugs and unlawful possession of handguns, according to records on the state Department of Corrections website.
On Feb. 19, 2013 Bradley was sentenced to six years in prison.
Bradley could receive a term of life in prison for the murder when he is sentenced by Judge Stuart Peim on Feb. 5, 2016.
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