Woman Arrested In Commune Killing
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A woman wanted for allegedly shooting the leader of a Staten Island commune was arrested yesterday after more than a year-long manhunt, authorities said.
Rebekah Johnson, who was arraigned last year in the shooting of a leader of the Ganas commune, Jeffrey Gross, was captured while exiting a train in Philadelphia, authorities said.
“We had prior intelligence that she was going to be there,” a supervisor for the U.S. Marshall’s fugitive task force, Robert Kurtz, told the Associated Press.
Ms. Johnson, a former commune member, was accused of shooting Mr. Goss in the arm and chest outside his home in May 2006.
