Seton Hall Prep Grad's Killer Apprehended, Prosecutor Says

Arrests have been made in the recent killings of two Essex County teens, the prosecutor’s office said Monday morning.

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray will hold a press conference at 3 p.m. Monday to announce the arrests in the slayings of Brendan Tevlin, a 19-year-old Livingston resident, and Chayanne Bond, a 17-year-old Irvington cheerleader.

Tevlin, a Seton Hall Prep grad who had just completed his first year at the University of Richmond, was fatally shot in June on Northfield Avenue in West Orange.

Tevlin had been playing video games and watching the College World Series at a friend’s house in West Orange on June 25, the night he was killed, according to The Star-Ledger.

Tevlin and a group of friends left the Florence Place home and went to a 7-Eleven in South Orange, the report said. Tevlin then texted his mother shortly before midnight that he was on his way home, according to the report.

According to the prosecutor’s office, Tevlin was then shot multiple times near the intersection of Northfield Avenue and Walker Road at about midnight and he was found inside his family’s Jeep Liberty about a mile east of that location in an apartment complex’s parking lot, the prosecutor’s office said.

Days after the killing, the prosecutor’s office released photos of two males seen running on surveillance video at the time of the homicide and the Essex County Sheriff’s Office offered a $10,000 reward for information about the incident.

Patch will provide updates after Monday’s press conference.