Beating spurred fatal gang shooting in Hillsboro, prosecutor says; killer gets life

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Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media

A baseball-bat beating likely prompted the fatal shooting of a Hillsboro man in a strip-mall parking lot in 2022, a Washington County prosecutor said Thursday.

Enrique Tapia-Chavez was found guilty of second-degree murder during a jury trial in April for the execution-style shooting of 40-year-old Juan J. Moncivais outside the Su Casa Super Mercado at 1050 S.E. Walnut St. in Hillsboro, just after midnight on July 11, 2022.

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