Plainfield killing results in 15-year sentence for man, teenager

On February 21, 2014 a man and a teenager were both in street gangs and was each sentenced 15 years in prison for the 2011 fatal shooting in Plainfield. Judge Scott Moynihan pronounced sentences for both Jordan Camacho and Laquan Chandler, and ordered that each must serve 85 percent of their terms, about l2 years and nine months, before being eligible for parole. Camocha and Chandler say they are members of the G-Shine set of the bloods. Authorities said that on March 21, 2011, Camacho at 18, and Chandler at 15, shot Nelson Santos Betance at the age 46, as he sat in a car on West Third Street and Monroe Avenue in Plainfield. 

By: Tom Haydon