Police responded to Stelton Road and Lakeview Avenue where officers found a vehicle in New Market Pond in Piscataway around 5:35 a.m., according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone.
Inside the car, authorities found two victims who were pronounced dead at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, the prosecutor said alongside Piscataway Police Chief Thomas Mosier.
The mother was later identified as Tamequa Robinson, 30, of Edison.
The cause of death remains undetermined pending the completion of autopsies by the Middlesex County Regional Medical Examiner’s Office.
The investigation is active and continuing.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Joe Naccarato of the Piscataway Police Department at (732) 562-1100 or Detective Paul Kelley of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at (732) 745-3330.
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