North Carolina man held for Monday shooting in Asbury Park

The probe of an overnight shooting in Asbury Park that left two victims injured, but still alive, leads to the arrest of a suspect from North Carolina.

Elijah "Streets" Graham, 27, from the North Carolina town of Fairview, faces two first-degree charges of attempted murder and two second-degree weapons-possession counts, according to information from the office of acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Chris Gramiccioni.

After his 4 AM arrest, Graham was placed in the Monmouth County Correctional Institution in Freehold on $700,000 bail and no option for release on payment of 10 percent.

At the request of Assistant County Prosecutor Matthew Bogner, Judge Honora O'Brien Kilgallen stipulated a bail source hearing as a condition of posting bail, as well as no contact with the victim and no return to the scene of the crime.

Asbury Park police responded at 10:01 PM to a report of shots on Summerfield Avenue, and found the 24-year-old victim from Neptune on Washington Avenue with a gunshot wound in the back, authorities said. He was treated at Jersey Shore University Medical Center and released.

Local and county investigators, who determined that the shooting took place inside a 2005 Chevrolet Malibu parked on Summerfield, also identified a 35-year-old Neptune Township man as a second victim. He sustained non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said.

If convicted of the first-degree charge, Graham would risk up to 20 years in prison with a mandatory sentence of 85 percent before parole eligibility, under New Jersey's No Early Release Act.. Each weapons offense carries a penalty of five to 10 years on conviction.