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Paramus Murder: Man Stabbed Dad Dead, Left Him In Home Two Days, Sources Say
UPDATE: A Paramus man who’d just stabbed his father to death dragged the body to a bathroom and tried to set it on fire last week as part of an attempt to conceal what he’d done, authorities said. Melvin Thomas repeatedly stabbed his father, 61-year-old Manuel Thomas, in the chest with a kitchen knife on Valentine’s Day, a criminal complaint says. He then dragged the bloody corpse to a bathroom where he tried igniting it with a lighter, according to the complaint filed by Paramus Police Detective Justin Sicari. “This attempt failed,” the detective wrote. Melvin Thomas wiped off the b…
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Man Convicted Of Shooting Woman During NJ Hotel Hostage Situation In Front Of Kids: Prosecutor
A 40-year-old Georgia man was found guilty of attempted murder on Thursday, Jan. 18 after he shot a woman and then held her in a Somerset County hotel room in 2022, authorities said. Eder Gelin was intoxicated when he became angry and held woman at gunpoint for nearly an hour at a hotel room in Franklin Township in August 2022, in front of her two children, then shot her three times, Somerset County Prosecutor John McDonald, Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Chief of County Detectives Francisco Roman Jr., and Franklin Township Public Safety Director Quovella Maeweather said. The woman was…
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Fugitive Hunted In 'Bling Bishop' Robbery Killed By US Marshals In NJ Hotel Shootout
𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦: A fugitive wanted for robbing a "bling" bishop from Bergen County during an online service was killed by U.S. Marshals Wednesday afternoon during a shootout at a Route 1 hotel, federal sources confirmed. Ex-con Shamar Leggette was the subject of a manhunt following the infamous 2022 gunpoint robbery of "Bling Bishop" Lamor Whitehead of Paramus during a live-streamed church service in Brooklyn. Leggette, 41, of Brooklyn, also shot a man in Providence, RI last September, authorities there said. Members of the U.S. States Marshals Service NY/NJ Regional Task Force, assisting th…
Police & Fire
18-Year-Old Killed Stepdad In Heated Argument Over Dog Crate In South Jersey: Complaint
"I'm hurt that I had to do that," is what an 18-year-old New Jersey man was captured telling his mother after fatally shooting his stepdad over an argument about cleaning a dog crate, according to police documents obtained by Daily Voice. Jah’lyll X. Lawrence, 18, was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Joe Williams at a home in Upper Deerfield Township, according to the Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office. Lawrence also faces weapons offenses. He was being held in Cumberland County jail. The pair were arguing over the crate before Williams began choking Lawrence, according t…
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AT 21: Paterson Ex-Con Charged In Separate Shootings After Prison Release
A 21-year-old ex-con from Paterson who’s already spent three years behind bars had been free all of four months when he shot someone, then shot someone else while police searched for him this week, authorities charged. A SWAT team led a raid that ended a brief standoff at an Essex Street apartment in Paterson with Memphis Morales on Friday, Jan. 12, they said. Morales was previously convicted of a 2020 shooting and was incarcerated for three years before being released from New Jersey State Prison last May. Three months later, Morales shot a 34-year-old Secaucus man during a Sept. 17 robbe…
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NJ Cops ID Triple Murder Victims, Accused Shooter (
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Police have identified the gunman accused of killing three people in a New Jersey home Monday, Nov. 27. Om Brahmbhatt, 23, has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Dilipkumar Brahmbhatt, 72, Yashkumar Brahmbhatt, 38, and Bindu Brahmbhatt, 72, Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone said. Ciccone and South Plainfield Police Chief Peter Papa said only that the 23-year-old Brahmbhatt lived with and was related to the three people he killed at the Traditions condo complex on Coppola Drive. The victims were found dead in the home around …
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Paterson Ex-Con Who Murdered Woman About To Have His Baby Sentenced To Life
UPDATE: A Paterson ex-con who shot and killed a woman who was two weeks away from delivering his baby was sentenced to life in prison. Donqua Thomas, 33, was convicted by a jury in Paterson this past summer of murder in the cold-blooded killing of Remy Lee, a 31-year-old mother of two. It was early afternoon on Oct. 29, 2020 when “Quay” Thomas parked a red Scion coupe in a rear lot at the Brooks-Sloate Terrace co-ops, prosecutors said. Lee, returning from a doctor's visit, pulled up an hour and a half later, got out of her car and headed to her apartment.Thomas then pointed a gun out his …
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Man Fatally Stabs Stepdaughter, 20, Before Slashing Himself In New Brunswick: Prosecutor
A man from Central Jersey has been charged with fatally stabbing his stepdaughter before slashing himself, authorities said. Lissi Rodriguez-Sanchez, 20, of New Brunswick. was killed in the stabbing, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone. Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023, at 9:12 a.m.., authorities responded to 37 Juliet Street after receiving the report that there were two injured people. Police found Rodriguez-Sanchez and Teodulo Habana, 64, of New Brunswick. Rodriguez-Sanchez had multiple stab wounds and ultimately succumbed to her injuries and was pron…
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Jersey Shore Man Charged With Bias Intimidation After Puncturing Tires At 7-Eleven: Prosecutor
A 33-year-old Brick Township man has been charged with bias intimidation after an incident at a 7-Eeven store, authorities said. Ryan McDonald also was charged with criminal mischief and weapons offenses on Tuesday, Oct. 24, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer. At approximately 2 p.m. Tuesday, Officers from the Brick Township Police Department were summoned to the 7-Eleven store on Mantoloking Road for a report of criminal mischief. An investigation by responding Officers determined that a male suspect became agitated with other customers in …
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Two Teens Charged In Central Jersey Shooting: Prosecutor
Two teenagers have been charged in a February shooting in Central Jersey, authorities said. Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Director Anthony Caputo of the New Brunswick Police Department announced that the males are in custody and charged with acts of juvenile delinquency for offenses which if committed by an adult would constitute attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapons offenses. On Feb. 25, at approximately 11 a.m., the New Brunswick Police Department received a 911 call about a shooting in the area of Joyce Kilmer Avenue and Delavan …
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Update
: Jurors Convict Bergen County Man Of Gunning Down Newly-Released Killer
A 25-year-old South Hackensack man was convicted of gunning down a convicted killer who’d only just been released from prison after serving his time. Rather than accept a plea deal, Naszhere Marquette Jones took his chances with a jury – and lost – in connection with the March 2021 shooting death of ex-con Jaquan Harrison, 35, in Paterson. Jurors in Paterson found Jones guilty of reckless manslaughter and weapons offenses following a day and a half of deliberations, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said on Friday, Sept. 29. Harrison had spent more than four years in state prison…
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Jersey Shore Teen Charged With Attempted Murder After Foot Chase By Police: Prosecutor
An Asbury Park teenager has been arrested in connection with a shooting, authorities said. Nazzir Wallace, 18, was charged with first-degree attempted murder, eluding, resisting arrest, obstruction of justice and multiple weapons and drug offenses, according to Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond S. Santiago At approximately 11 p.m. on Aug. 30, Asbury Park police responded to the 100 block of Memorial Drive for shots fired. Minutes later, authorities were told that a man with a gunshot wound had been admitted to a nearby hospital, Santiago said. An investigation inv…
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