Wife Found Dead On Front Lawn In NJ Murder Suicide: Prosecutor

A New Jersey woman was found dead on her front lawn, and her husband dead inside, in what police say was a murder suicide.

Woodbridge PD
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Cecilia Levine

08/31/2022 8:24 p.m.

James Jasper, 66, of Fords, is believed to have shot his wife, Lynn Jasper, 69 of Fords, before turning the gun on himself at a house on Soren Street in Woodbridge Wednesday, Aug. 31, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said.

Arriving officers found Lynn having suffered multiple gunshot wounds on the lawn, and then found her husband inside the house with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Ciccone said.

The investigation is active and being investigated as a murder/suicide. Authorities have determined that there is no threat to the public.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Perry Penna of the Woodbridge Police Department at (732) 602-7326 or Detective Ryan Tighe of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at (732) 745-4335.

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