One of four suspects has pleaded guilty to the kidnapping and murder of a Jersey City woman.
Omar Martin has admitted his role in the kidnapping and fatal shooting of a mother of five from Jersey City. (Essex County Correctional Facility) NEWARK -- A Newark man has admitted his role in the 2012 kidnapping and murder of a Jersey City woman whose whose body was found with multiple gunshot wounds in a vacant Newark townhouse.
Omar Martin, 27, pleaded guilty earlier this month to murder for the fatal shooting of 29-year-old Regina Baker on June 19, 2012.
Several days before her body was found, Baker was abducted at gunpoint by several on a street in Jersey City.
Details about why Baker was kidnapped and the motive for the killing were never disclosed.
Martin pleaded guilty to murder on June 3, according to court records.
He was one of four people arrested for the crime. He is the second to plead guilty. Karon Adams, 28, of Irvington, pleaded guilty in Superior Court in Newark in October 2014, but his sentencing has been repeatedly postponed, according to court records.
Regina Baker, 29, a mother of five, was kidnapped in Jersey City in June 2012. (Photo courtesy of ABC News) The two other defendants, Damon Zengotita, 40, of Hillside, and Michelle Paden, 41, of Newark, are still awaiting trial.
In August 2014, Martin was sentenced to four years in prison for an unrelated drug case.
In March 2012, about three months before the drug case, Martin was arrested in a Newark residence, where he was allegedly found with 425 envelops of heroin.
He was free on bail for those charges when Baker was kidnapped.
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