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Police: Williamstown man arrested for allegedly firing gun into occupied car

Mark McKenna, 55, was arrested without incident on Feb. 14

Mark McKenna, 55, of Williamstown was arrested on the afternoon of Wednesday, Feb. 14, by officers of the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office Fugitive Investigation Unit and Monroe Township police on charges of firing a gun into an occupied car in Williamstown on Tuesday, Feb. 13.

The arrest occurred without incident at a Walter Avenue residence. McKenna is to be turned over to the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office for transportation to jail pending a detention hearing.

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McKenna is charged with aggravated assault, specifically by firing a weapon into a vehicle with three occupants. According to a criminal complaint, the bullet entered a passenger window, lodging in the windshield. It did not strike the occupants.

The other charges the Monroe Township Police Department has signed against McKenna include: possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose; unlawful possession of a weapon; criminal mischief and possession of a weapon by a convicted person.

The shooting Tuesday resulted in activation of the Gloucester County Special Weapons and Tactics unit at McKenna’s Herbert Boulevard residence. He was not found there.

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