April 22, 2014: Galilee Baptist Church sits to the left in this picture along the 400 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in Trenton, N.J. Rowhomes line the other side of the street.

“We’ve arrested one individual and we’ve recovered five weapons,” said Trenton Police Director Ralph Rivera. “Three in the parking lot adjacent to the church, one at the foyer of the church and one on the individual who was arrested.”

Police are now on the hunt for any other shooters who may have been involved.

The shooting broke out shortly after noon on Tuesday during funeral services for 19-year-old Cagney Labon Roberts at the Galilee Baptist Church on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard.

Three people were shot, according to Rivera.

“I can tell you right now that as a result of this incident, we have three people who were shot,” Rivera said. “We have a woman who was grazed and two young men who received more severe injuries.”

Investigators say the two men who were shot are in critical condition. Police have not yet determined if the shootings happened inside or outside the church.

Rivera said two other women were hurt. One suffered a seizure and the other was hurt when she got trapped trying to get out of the church.

Eric Muhammad, a cousin of the victim, told Parker that he was in the front row of the church, with other family members, when he heard the shots.

“Well I heard the pop and I immediately turned around and attempted to start securing family members and getting them out the side door and dialing police at the same time,” Muhammad told Parker. “The place was full, the place was full.”

Police say one person was arrested so far in connection to the shooting while five weapons were recovered. According to investigators, the suspect was trying to drive away from the scene and was armed. Officers who were already gathered outside the church were able to apprehend him.

Police have not yet released his identity and are still trying to determine how many other shooters were involved.

Roberts, who was from Trenton, was shot multiple times last Wednesday night, April 9, when a gunman fired into a crowd of people at the corner of Girard and St. Joes Avenue.

Two others men were wounded by the gunfire.

TRENTON – Cagney Labon Roberts, 19, departed this life on Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at Capital Health Regional Medical Center.
Born in Trenton, he was educated in the Trenton public school system. He was a member of Children’s Bread Church of Deliverance.
Cagney was predeceased by maternal grandparents, Donald Lee Roberts and Doris Roberts, paternal grandfather, Jessie James, and his maternal great-grandfather, Willie Holman.
He survived by his mother, Windy Roberts (James Jackson); his father, Leroy James; his son, Cagney Labon Roberts Jr.; his siblings, Donald, Quashawn and Windy Roberts, Shanika and Mufee Marshall, Isaiah James and Le’Tiqua Davis; paternal grandmother, Pastor Rosie James; maternal great-grandmother, Tommie Lee Woodson; five aunts, four uncles, and a host of other siblings, nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at Galilee Baptist Church, 440 Martin Luther King Blvd., Trenton. Calling hours are from 9 a.m. until the time of services at the church. Interment will be at Colonial Memorial Park. Arrangements are by the Hughes Funeral Home.

Published in The Trentonian on Apr. 20, 2014