TRENTON -- Authorities arrested a city man on murder charges Saturday, accusing him of gunning down a 19-year-old man in North Trenton in June.

Leroy Tutt, 30, is charged with killing Nabate Washington, on Sanford Street on June 30, Trenton police said Sunday.

Leroy Tutt

Tutt was released from state prison in June 2016 after serving a 7-year sentence that encompassed two shootings from the summer of 2005, when he was a member of the Gangster Killer Bloods gang.

Tutt was charged in 2010 as part of Operation Capital City, a state-led investigation of gang crimes in the Trenton area that started in 2005 with a wiretap on gang leaders' phone conversations.

When he was sentenced in 2013, he admitted firing at Paul "P-Funk" Jiles -- a high ranking member of the Crips gang -- and striking a female bystander instead. The woman recovered from the chest wound.

He also admitted firing a rifle at the home of a member of the rival Nine Trey Gangsters, a month later, in August 2005. In that shooting, the rifle jammed after one shot, and he was charged with a weapon offense.

Before being sent to prison, Tutt sad he'd left the gang life in 2007 and at the time of the shootings, he wasn't thinking of others, but how fellow gang members would view him.

"I was just lost," Tutt told the judge. "I am going to take responsibility for my actions."

The judge, Mercer County Judge Robert Billmeier, warned Tutt that after he is released from prison, he should work hard to "turn away from the street activity and turn away from the gang."

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