Two charged in Jersey City double homicide after May 18 shooting

Luis Quintero, 53, and Kenneth Darby, 52, were found unresponsive inside a residence at 109-111 Old Bergen Road after shots were reported just after 1 a.m. on May 18 in Jersey City’s Greenville section. Both men were taken to Jersey City Medical Center and pronounced dead, turning a late-night shooting call into a homicide case built around a narrow window of violence and a still-unfinished account of who did what inside the home.

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office first said no arrests had been made and asked anyone with information to call 201-915-1345 or submit an anonymous tip through hcpo.org/tips. That request came before investigators identified the victims and before the case started to split into separate roles for separate suspects. Authorities later said the identities of the dead men were withheld until next of kin were notified.

By May 27, prosecutors said Jahquan Porter, 25, of Jersey City, and Angelica Manning, 23, of Bayonne, had been arrested at the Hudson County Correctional Facility, where both were already being held on unrelated matters. Porter was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, terroristic threats, unlawful possession of a weapon, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, all tied to a knife. Manning was charged as an accomplice with attempted murder, aggravated assault, unlawful possession of a weapon, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.

Even with those arrests, the full story still does not line up cleanly. Investigators said Kenneth Darby was stabbed by Porter during an altercation before 18-year-old Treshawn Daniels allegedly shot both victims. Daniels, also of Jersey City, remained wanted on charges including murder, attempted murder, unlawful possession of a firearm, and possession of a firearm for an unlawful purpose. The Regional Medical Examiner’s Office had not yet finalized Darby’s official cause of death, leaving one more crucial piece of the case still open.

That is what makes this shooting more than a routine arrest announcement. Quintero and Darby were the men left dead at the center of it, while prosecutors have begun sorting out a chaotic sequence that may involve a knife, a gun, and multiple participants. The arrests of Porter and Manning move the case forward, but the alleged gunman is still at large, and the fatal chain of events inside Old Bergen Road is not fully explained yet.