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Police & Fire
NJ Mom Killed By Ex-BF In Murder-Suicide Days After 21st Birthday, Family Says
A young Vineland mother was killed by her ex-boyfriend in a murder-suicide, according to her family. A GoFundMe page said Mary Rodriguez died just days after celebrating her 21st birthday. She was the mother of a two-year-old boy. The GoFundMe had raised more than $12,500 from at least 199 donations as of Wednesday, Aug. 28. "Mary was filled with hopes and dreams, embarking on a transformative journey to build a secure future for herself and her little one," wrote Marianette Mercado, Rodriguez's stepmother and the fundraiser's organizer. "Her vibrant spirit touched the lives of m…
Police & Fire
Man Shoots, Kills Ex-Girlfriend In South Jersey Murder-Suicide: Prosecutors
A man shot and killed his ex-girlfriend in a murder-suicide in Vineland, authorities said. The 21-year-old woman identified as "M.R." and the 22-year-old man identified as "J.C.S." died in the shooting on Monday, Aug. 26, Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae said in a news release. Vineland police responded to a report of shots fired at a home on Roosevelt Boulevard at around 6:03 p.m. Officers found the man and woman suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. The two were airlifted to Cooper University Hospital. They were pronounced dead at the Camden hospit…
Police & Fire
Man, 75, Threatens Killing Girlfriend At Atlantic City Motel: Police
A Missouri man threatened to shoot and kill his girlfriend at a beachfront motel in Atlantic City, authorities said. James Pace, 75, of Blue Springs, MO, was arrested on Saturday, Aug. 17, the Atlantic City Police Department said in a news release. Officers responded to a domestic dispute at a motel on the beach block of Iowa Avenue at around 9:30 p.m. Investigators said Pace was arguing with a woman he was dating and threatened to kill her in a murder-suicide. He was taken into custody "without incident" and officers found a loaded gun with additional ammunition. Pace was charged wit…
Police & Fire
Grandmother Kills Ex-Daughter-In Law From NJ In Twisted Murder-Suicide: Reports
A 45-year-old New Jersey native and Westchester County, NY middle school teacher was shot and killed by her ex-husband's 65-year-old mother, who then turned the gun on herself in New York City, multiple news outlets say. Marisa Galloway — who hails from Wildwood, NJ and worked as a special education teacher in Ardsley, NY — was shot and killed by Kathleen Leigh near Gracie Mansion on Friday morning, July 26, NYPD brass said at a news briefing later that day. The NYPD said it happened amid a custody battle between Galloway and her ex-husband, whose mother was identified as Leigh, over their …
Police & Fire
Murder-suicide
: Husband Shoots Wife, Turns Gun On Himself In South Jersey, Prosecutor Says
A husband shot his wife dead before killing himself in Cumberland County, authorities said. On Saturday, July 27, at approximately 7:45 p.m., New Jersey State Police Bridgeton Barracks Troopers responded to an apparent murder-suicide on Roadstown Road in Hopewell Township, according to the Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office. NJSP Troopers discovered a 52-year-old female and a 53-year-old man dead from apparent gunshot wounds, the prosecutor said. Initial observations still subject to autopsy results revealed that the female was shot by the male and then the male died from a se…
Police & Fire
Victim Was Moving Out Of Gloucester County Apartment During Murder-Suicide: Cops
Authorities have identified two people killed as a result of a murder-suicide in Gloucester County. On Tuesday, May 7 at approximately 7 p.m., Clayton police responded to the Academy Arms Apartments on North Broad Street for a domestic dispute involving gunfire, they said. Clayton police found the bodies of Nina D. Sinclair-Green, 43, and Anthony J. Williams, 45, dead inside an apartment leased by Williams, according to the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office. Sinclair-Green and Williams had been living there together, the prosecutor said. An investigation&nbs…
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Murder-suicide
: Man, Woman Found Dead In Gloucester County Apartment: Police
Police in Gloucester County are investigating a possible murder-suicide, authorities said. On Tuesday, May 7 at approximately 7 p.m., Clayton police responded to the Academy Arms Apartments on North Broad Street for a domestic dispute involving gunfire, police said. Police found a 45-year-old man and a 43-year-old woman dead in the apartment, they said. ALSO SEE: Cops ID murder-suicide victims. "The initial investigation indicates that this was a murder-suicide," Clayton police said in a press statement. The investigation is ongoing. If anyone has any information about this incide…
Police & Fire
Murder-suicide
: 2 Men Found Dead In South Jersey
A pair of men are dead after an apparent murder-suicide in Salem County, authorities said. Juniel Feliciano-Lopez, 24, of Pennsville, died of multiple gunshot wounds and was found in a vehicle, according to Salem County Prosecutor Kristin Telsey. The suspected gunman, Henry Junior Kivelier Montero, 23, of Philadelphia, died at the scene of a single self-inflicted gunshot wound, the prosecutor said. The shootings occurred at about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 2 in the 100 block of South Broad Street in Penns Grove, Telsey said. The shootings are believed to have stemmed from an argu…
Police & Fire
Police Detail Suicide Note Penned By NJ Dad Before Killing 9-Year-Old Son: Affidavit
The death of a 9-year-old boy at the hands of his father in Sayreville was intended to be a murder-suicide, according to police paperwork obtained by Daily Voice. Manuel Rivera, 43, recorded an apology video following a marital dispute he’d been having with a “witness” just before leaving an Eisenhower Drive home with the 9-year-old boy Thursday, March 28, according to an affidavit for probable cause obtained by Daily Voice. “We spoke to a witness who indicated that her and Mr. Rivera were having marital issues and that he sent her a video to her phone,” Sayreville Police Det…
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Murder-suicide
: Man Kills GF Then Himself In NJ Residence, Police Say
Police are investigating the murder-suicide of a Camden County couple, they said. Alexander Morales, 44, is believed to have shot his 39-year-old girlfriend Katherine Andujar in the chest before turning the gun on himself in Lindenwold, according to Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay alongside Lindenwold Police Chief Michael McCarthy, Jr. Police performing a welfare check on the 400 block of East Gibbsboro Road found Andujar having suffered a gunshot wound to her chest and Morales, a gunshot wound to his head, McCarthy and MacAulay said. No further details were released. Edit…
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: Two Trapped In Suspicious Teaneck Basement Fire Die: Prosecutor
UPDATE: Two people were confirmed dead Thursday following a suspicious gasoline-fed overnight basement fire in Teaneck that sources said was an attempted murder-suicide earlier this week. Firefighters were dousing the 12:30 a.m. blaze at a multi-family home on Palisade Avenue on Monday, Feb. 19, when they discovered and rescued three people trapped in a basement apartment, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. He identified them as Manjit Kaur, 47, 35-year-old Ranjodh Singh IV and an as-yet-unidentified woman. All three were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, but Manjit K…
Police & Fire
Murder-suicide
: Woman Stabbed Mom Before Hanging Herself In NJ Motel Room, Police Say
Police are investigating a murder-suicide in a New Jersey hotel room where they say a woman stabbed her mom and then hanged herself. Dawn Ogburn, 38, of Brooklawn, and Deann Ogburn, 63, were both found dead in a room at the Rodeway Inn on Crescent Boulevard around 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay and Brooklawn Police Chief Shamus Ellis said. No further details were provided.
Police & Fire
Murder-suicide
: Man, Woman Found Dead In New Milford After Acrimonious Breakup
A dispute that led to an incendiary breakup ignited a murder-suicide in a private home in New Milford, multiple law enforcement and family sources told Daily Voice. Giovanni “John” Emmolo, 80, and 56-year-old Marina Perez were both found dead of gunshot wounds at his Myrtle Avenue home around 4:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, after New Milford police were asked to conduct a welfare check. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella confirmed their identities and the cause of death late Sunday afternoon. He didn't say who investigators believe fired the shots. Perez was shot from behind, a source with…
Police & Fire
Mom, 73, Son Found Shot Dead In Clifton Home
A 73-year-old grandmother and her 33-year-old son were found shot dead in her Clifton home, authorities confirmed on Wednesday. Investigators said Peter Koc apparently fired the shots that killed him and Zofia Koc in the 3rd Street home that she and his late father bought when was a toddler. However, they have more work to do before officially determining whether it was a murder-suicide or an incident that may have begun with an unintentional shooting, Daily Voice has learned. Police found the bodies, and the gun, while conducting a requested welfare check at the family’s home near Hadley …
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Man Killed Ex-Wife In Jersey Shore Murder-Suicide: Police
Police have identified the two people killed in a Jersey Shore weekend murder-suicide. Carl Schulz, Jr., 52, is believed to have broken into his ex-wife Kimberly Hoffman's apartment on Whitemarsh Court in Little Egg Harbor, early Saturday, July 29, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said. Hoffman called police around 5:10 a.m. saying someone was breaking into her home. Responding officers found her suffering a gunshot wound to her face, and a deceased dog who had also been shot, Billhimer said. Schulz was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the head, and later died. Authorities…
Police & Fire
Man, Woman Shot Dead At Hackensack Nursing Home
A 76-year-old visitor to a Hackensack nursing home shot and killed his 73-year-old wife terminally ill wife and then turned the gun on himself, responders said. No one apparently heard the shots at CareOne at Wellington on Union Street early Saturday, July 15, investigators said. The bodies of Michael Zaccario and Patricia Zaccario, both of Wood-Ridge, were found after someone went to the room to check on them, they said. Police received a 911 call from the facility at 8:51 a.m., then found the couple both dead of gunshot wounds, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The prosecutor'…
News
Inside Pennsylvania Family's Chilling Suicide Pact
The Daub family's bodies were arranged in a straight line across the backyard of their York County home when police arrived at the scene on Wednesday, Jan. 25, they said. Notes inside of their Loman Avenue home in West Manchester Township detailed exactly how Morgan, 26, and her parents, James, 62, and Deborah, 59, planned on dying, police said in a statement emailed to Daily Voice. And the chilling scene reflected just those, police said: Deborah killed James, Morgan killed Deborah, and then Morgan — who according to PennLive died holding a sword that read "Sword of the Lord — then killed …
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Murder-Suicide Claims Life Of Philadelphia Salon Owner Allegedly Divorcing Husband: Report
The owner of a salon and spa in northwest Philadelphia was shot dead in the business paring lot in what authorities are calling an apparent murder-suicide, according to a report from ChestnutHillLocal.com. Wend Feldman, who was divorcing her husband, was found behind Spa Elysium and Fringe Salon on Bethlehem Pike in Chestnut Hill around 9 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, the outlet said. Posted by Spa Elysium Chestnut Hill on Wednesday, March 2, 2022 Feldman, 59, and the 64-year-old man were both found with gunshot wounds to their heads, CHL said. Feldman was declared dead at the scene, while t…
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Shooter In Murder-Suicide Was Retired Atlantic City Police Officer
The man who shot and killed his ex-girlfriend before killing himself was a retired Atlantic City police officer, authorities confirmed. William Beattie, 47, retired from the police force on Feb. 1, 2010, according to public records. Police were called to Ogden Road in Deptford at 6:50 p.m. Monday, Nov. 28. They found the bodies of the resident, Erin Gatier, 47, and Beattie, of Landisville, inside, according to the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office. On Facebook, Gatier's older sister, Salena Schwegel, wrote, "This is another example of abusive men leading to the worst possible outcome.…
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Murder
Suicide
: Boyfriend Kills Girlfriend Then Himself In South Jersey, Authorities Say
An Atlantic County man killed himself after fatally shooting his Gloucester County girlfriend, authorities said. Police were called to Ogden Road in Deptford at 6:50 p.m. Monday, Nov. 28. They found the bodies of the resident, Erin Gatier, 47, and William Beattie, also 47, of Landisville, inside, according to the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office. Autopsies performed on their bodies by the Gloucester County Medical Examiner’s Office found the incident was a murder-suicide, investigators said. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Brandon Cohen of the Gloucester County P…
News
Homicides
: Garfield, Paterson Men In Their 20s Slain In Separate Shootings
Two men – one from Garfield, the other from Paterson – were shot and killed in the Silk City within 5½ hours of one another. Off-duty officers heard shots, came running and found a crime scene but no victim at 51 Colonial Avenue around 10:30 p.m. Friday, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said. The 29-year-old city man who was shot had been taken in a private vehicle to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, they said. Uniformed officers were later dispatched around 4 a.m. to the corner of North Main Street a…
News
Couple Found Shot Dead In Car In Paterson
A man and woman were found shot dead -- along with a gun -- in an SUV parked on a Paterson street Friday afternoon, responders said. The bodies were found in an older-model Chevy Traverse with Connecticut license plates parked on Getty Avenue between two strip clubs down the road from St. Joseph's University Medical Center at 11:40 a.m. Both were pronounced dead at the scene, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a brief news release. The presence of a gun suggested a possible murder-suicide, but it was too soon to tell. Detectives f…
Police & Fire
Murder-suicide
: North Jersey Native Killed By Man With AR-15 Over Summer Break At UVM
A 22-year-old North Jersey native was killed by a man with an AR-15 who injured a second victim before fatally turning the gun on himself, authorities said. Mikal Dixon, 27, broke into a Burlington, VT home, where he shot and killed 22-year-old Roxbury High School graduate Kayla Noonan around 2:20 a.m. Monday, July 25, Acting Police Chief Jon Murad said. He also shot the surviving 22-year-old female victim twice, and she remains hospitalized in critical condition, Murad said. Dixon, who knew both of his victims, tried breaking down a door at the apartment but couldn't get in, so he broke …
Police & Fire
Murder-suicide
: Details Released In NJ House Fire July Fourth Weekend
The victims involved in a Hunterdon County house fire apparently died in a murder-suicide, authorities announced. Kathryn Shern, 70, and Charles Shern, 71, were found dead of gunshot wounds inside the fire-damaged Whitehouse Station home on Sunday, July 3. The fire broke out at a home on Flemington-Whitehouse Road just before 6 a.m., DailyVoice.com reported. The investigation was ongoing. Additional details were not released. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office’s Criminal Investigations Unit at (908) 788-1129 or Readington Township Police D…
Police & Fire
Murder-suicide
: Teen Boy Watched Dad Kill Mom In NJ Backyard, Relatives Say
Police were investigating a murder-suicide that brought police to a Mullica Township home July Fourth, they said. Edward Reven 3rd., 53, killed Rayanne Reven, 53 and then himself in their backyard around midnight July Fourth, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office said. A GoFundMe launched for Rayanne's children said the incident happened in front of her son, Jesse. More than $2,300 had been raised on the campaign as of noon on July 5. A Facebook friend commented, "She was a great friend, colleague, and a wonderful person." This is an active investigation and no other information …
Police & Fire
Virginia 'Throuple' Dead In Murder Suicide Pact, Police Say
"To everyone. To all my friends. I love you. I need to go." That was the cryptic note that 26-year-old Jose Gale Aliaga posted to Facebook before police say he killed two women and then turned the gun on himself in their shared Fairfax apartment earlier this week. Social media posts seem to imply that Aliaga, Angelica McIntosh, 26, and Anne Lollar, 31, were involved in a polyamorous relationship. The three had agreed to a suicide pact before police found their bodies with gunshot wounds in a locked bedroom of a shared Mazarin Place apartment in Fairfax on Tuesday, June 7, police said. In…
Police & Fire
Murder Suicide Leaves Philly Area Parents, 12-Year-Old Child Dead, Authorities Say
Philadelphia area parents and their 12-year-old child were found dead in what appeared to be a murder-suicide on Monday, April 25, authorities said. A 55-year-old man, a 50-year-old woman, and their 12-year-old child were found dead by East Marlborough Township police performing a welfare check at a home on Federal Walk in Kennett Square on Monday, April 25, Chester County District Attorney Deb Ryan said Monday afternoon. A semi-automatic handgun on the floor near the man, and multiple cartridge casings were found at the scene, Ryan said. Detectives say there was a history of dom…
Police & Fire
Pair Dead In Vineland Murder-Suicide: Prosecutor
A man and woman were killed in what police believe was a Vineland murder-suicide Monday, March 14. A 48-year-old woman was found dead with apparent gunshot wounds on Wood Street around 6:20 a.m., according to Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae. Then, a 50-year-old man was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on the 2400 block of North Mill Road, McRae-Webb said. The investigation involves a domestic violence matter. Therefore, the names of the parties are not being released, she said. The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information about this …
News
Funeral Details Released For Kidnapped Elementary School Sisters Murdered By Dad
Funeral and memorial service details have been released for the Vicosa sisters who were kidnapped and shot dead by their father in a quadruple murder-suicide. Giana, 7, and Aaminah, 6, of York, Pennsylvania, were kidnapped by their estranged father on Sunday, Nov. 14, after he came to their home in the 1500 block of Pleader Lane in Windsor Township Friday, Nov. 12, with his former Baltimore County police partner, Tia Bynum, under the guise of a birthday for their mother Marisa Ayala Vicosa, according to police. Robert Vicosa held the girls hostage in their home as he drugged and raped the…
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'Senseless' Father Daughter Murder Suicide Rocks NJ Community
Shock and sadness spread throughout a New Jersey community Tuesday following the harrowing death of a 22-year-old woman at her father's hands. Including those left to grieve was Katherine Kelemen's mom, Sheri, who narrowly escaped Gregory Kelemen's wrath as he beat her and their daughter both with a baseball bat in their Voorhees home Monday morning, police records show. The 57-year-old dad's body was found on Tuesday with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the Camden County prosecutor said. Still, as loved ones and strangers tried to make sense of the distressing series of events, they rem…
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Door Lock Could've Prevented NJ Family Murder-Suicide, Lawsuit Says
A new lawsuit filed by the family of a New Jersey woman and her two children killed apparently by her husband in a murder-suicide at home says that it all could have been prevented with the replacement of a door lock, NJ Advance Media reports. Ruth Reyes Severino, 30, and her kids were found stabbed to death at the apartment she formerly shared with her estranged husband Eugenio Severino at Madole Place in Penns Grove, in February 2020, CBS says. Severino, 54, later hanged himself in an area park. Ruth Reyes Severino, Eugenio Severino, and their two children.Ruth Esther Reyes Perez (Sev…
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