Man to spend decades in prison for murder at memorial event
Matthew Tanner, of Trenton, must serve 55 years and three months before he is eligible for parole, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday.
Tanner was convicted of murder and weapons offenses in June following the August 2021 shooting death of Daquan Basnight, 30, in the 800 block of Stuyvesant Avenue on Aug. 1, 2021
The prosecutor's office said the case against Tanner was convincing due to his own words and the sharp eyes of a detective.
A gunman ambushed Basnight at about 12:20 a.m. following a party on the 800 block of Stuyvesant thrown by the family of Shakir Williams, a 17-year-old killed at a party in Hamilton in July 2013.
Williams' family lives on the block and the gathering is known as 'Sha Day.'
The city's gunfire detection system alerted officers to 13 shots being fired on the block and patrol officers arrived and found Basnight mortally wounded in the street, shot several times.
Detectives found security footage and watched as a shooter wearing all black emerged from a cut-through between homes on the south side of the block and fired on Basnight from behind, then ran back to the cut-through, which leads to Craft Alley.
Watching the footage, a prosecutor's Homicide Task Force detective found footage of Tanner walking in the direction of the shooting about seven minutes prior to the gunfire.
Authorities charged Tanner with Basnight's murder and on Aug. 3, 2021, he arrived at the prosecutor's office for processing and gave an interview to lead investigator Shawn Bruton.
The detective realized Tanner was wearing the same clothes as the night of the murder.
Moreover, Tanner identified himself in numerous screenshots from the surveillance footage before and after the shooting standing around the victim's body with a crowd of people. Tanner also identified himself standing next to Basnight's body three seconds after the last shot was fired,' the prosecutor's office said in a statement about the case.
The investigation and evidence trial showed Tanner left the party on Stuyvesant Avenue to shower and change his clothes at a nearby home. He then targeted Basnight as he walked away from the party – using the shortcuts between homes to approach Basnight from behind, then flee back to the area of the party, the prosecutor's office said.
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