2004 Media Releases:

CAMDEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE
VINCENT P. SARUBBI, CAMDEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR
MEDIA   INFORMATION

March 30, 2004

Camden County Prosecutor Vincent P. Sarubbi reported today that sentencing is scheduled for June 11, 2004, for Norris Wallace, M/25, who pleaded guilty on March 29, 2004, to Aggravated Manslaughter. The defendant admitted to shooting a 24-year-old man to death outside a Crown Fried Chicken restaurant in Camden, N.J., in October 2002.

Under a plea agreement, Assistant Prosecutor Sally Smith will recommend a New Jersey State Prison term of 13 years - including 85 percent, or just more than 11 years, to be served without parole eligibility - when Superior Court Judge John T. McNeill III sentences Wallace in June.

Wallace, of the 1800 block of Davis Street in Camden, admitted that he shot Glenmore Colon, of the 100 block of North 28th Street, at approximately 1:15 a.m. on Oct. 2, 2002, outside the restaurant at 24th and Federal streets. The incident started when the defendant and the victim engaged in a fistfight outside the restaurant, then moved inside the restaurant and continued fighting. Colon then walked out of the eatery and Wallace followed the victim out and shot him with a .38-caliber handgun.

Camden Police Patrolmen Daniel Vause and Walter Kuzniasz were driving in the area at the time and witnessed the shooting. They chased the suspect on foot and apprehended him after a short distance. The handgun was recovered from the roof of a nearby three-story building after the officers saw Wallace throw it and heard it land overhead as they apprehended the defendant.

Wallace is being held at the Camden County Correctional Facility pending sentencing.