Authorities have charged two men in connection with a Jan. 19, 2025, shooting in the area of Madison Avenue and Ellison Street, according to the Passaic County Prosecutor\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Francisco Bello-Amaro, 31, of the Bronx, and Ronald Rosario, 26, of Paterson, face multiple charges after an investigation determined they were responsible for the shooting.<\/p>\n
Police were dispatched to the intersection at about 4:20 a.m. on Jan. 19, 2025, and found a 23-year-old Paterson man who refused medical attention. Police located a potential crime scene in the area and began an investigation.<\/p>\n
Rosario was arrested without incident on Feb. 3, 2025, at police headquarters. Bello-Amaro was arrested on Jan. 22, 2026, by the U.S. Marshals Service in the Bronx and was extradited to Paterson on Jan. 30, 2026.<\/p>\n
Bello-Amaro is charged with first-degree attempted murder, third-degree aggravated assault, second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon and second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and he faces a maximum sentence of 45 years in state prison.<\/p>\n
Rosario is charged with first-degree attempted murder, third-degree hindering apprehension and fourth-degree obstruction, and he faces a maximum sentence of about 26 and a half years.<\/p>\n
Rosario was briefly held but released on court-ordered monitoring, and prosecutors plan to ask a judge to keep Bello-Amaro in custody pending resolution of the charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have charged two men in connection with a Jan. 19, 2025, shooting in the area of Madison…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-118332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}