Alleged killer Tyleeb Reese, who commanded international attention earlier this year during a 35-hour deadly standoff with police, has been indicted on heavy criminal charges.
Tyleeb Reese
A Mercer County grand jury on Wednesday handed up an 18-count indictment charging Reese with a variety of offenses ranging from murder to resisting arrest, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.
Reese, 35, of Trenton, is accused of shooting and killing a civilian, 56-year-old Robert Powell Jr., during the early hours of the standoff on May 10. The standoff ended about 5 p.m. May 11 with Reese surrendering peacefully. A judge eventually ordered Reese to be held without bail on pretrial detention. Read more
Leroy Tutt
A man who was notoriously shot in the butt earlier this year has been arrested in connection with a capital city murder.
Leroy Tutt, 30, was arrested Saturday night in connection with the murder of 19-year-old Nebate Anderson. Trenton patrol cops saw Tutt driving a vehicle near the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Evans Avenue and arrested him for murder and related offenses as a result of warrants issued in connection with Anderson’s death.
Anderson was gunned down on June 30 in the first block of Sanford Street, where police found him lying on the ground between a car and a minivan. He lived across the street from where he was shot. Read more
Jerome J. Thomas
A registered sex offender was shot and killed Friday night while seated inside his vehicle in North Trenton, becoming the city’s 15th homicide victim of 2017.
Jerome J. Thomas, 21, of the Somerset section of Franklin Township in Somerset County, suffered multiple gunshot wounds on the 600 block of Southard Street about 7:50 p.m. Friday, authorities said. He was pronounced dead shortly thereafter.
The at-large triggerman was described as a black male who fled the scene after the shooting, police said.Read more
Police investigate a murder in Trenton (Penny Ray - Trentonian)
Less than 24 hours before residents were expected to swarm the streets for the annual block party to combat crime, a man was murdered in the capital city.
“This is crazy,” a woman on her way to work said Tuesday morning as she navigated crime scene tape and a police barricade to continue her daily walk. Read more
(Left) Darryl Boone, (Right) Lamar Gaines
A Trenton man who admitted to killing his cellmate at the Mercer County Correction Center has been sentenced to 25 years in state prison.
Lamar Gaines, 22, must serve at least 85 percent of his sentence behind bars for strangling and beating 38-year-old Darryl Boone to death in 2013. Read more
Tisheen Rasheen Mack (pictured) was murdered in Trenton Sunday night (Facebook photo)
Hours after a man was murdered Sunday night, marking the second capital city homicide in less than a week, the mayor called upon parents to take a more active role in their children’s lives, and for lawmakers to revisit the state’s bail reform legislation.
“It’s important to know where your kids are, who they’re associating with, and who their friends are,” Mayor Eric Jackson said Monday in a phone conversation, adding that bail reform poses a challenge to public safety. “I believe lawmakers need to take a second and third look at bail reform in cooperation with law enforcement. It’s frustrating to have police do the work to lock up criminals, but 24 hours later they’re back on the street smiling and waving at them saying, ‘I told you I’d be back.’” Read more
Police investigate a murder in the 800 block of East State Street Sunday night. (Penny Ray - Trentonian)
A man was shot and killed Sunday night, marking the second capital city homicide in less than a week. Read more
Jamar Myers (N.J. Department of Corrections Photo)
The gunman who shot and killed a beloved Trenton pharmacist in April 2011 is now serving hard time in the state prison system.
Jamar Myers, 31, of Lalor Street in Hamilton Township, is doing 30 years behind bars for murdering Brunswick Pharmacy owner Sri Arjun Reddy Dyapa, 54, during the commission of a robbery.
The incident occurred April 29, 2011, when Myers walked into the pharmacy demanding drugs and shot Dyapa once in the chest when the victim refused to comply.Read more
Kyler Bragg (Facebook photo)
The teen who was shot in the head during a shootout Tuesday night was pronounced dead at the hospital Thursday morning.
Kyler Bragg, 15, was one of four teens shot around 9:45 p.m. Tuesday during a shootout near the intersection of Division and Hewitt streets.
Investigators believe some of the teens in the group were targeted as retaliation for terrorizing the neighborhood through robberies. Read more
Briann Lindsey
Prosecutors say Briann Lindsey stabbed her boyfriend to death earlier this year in Trenton’s West Ward, but two 9-1-1 calls paint a different picture of what happened that afternoon.
“My boyfriend, he’s bleeding,” Lindsey said about 4:10 p.m. March 6, according to the 9-1-1 recordings obtained by The Trentonian.
“What happened to him?” the Mercer County dispatcher asks.
“I don’t know,” Lindsey responds coolly as if the incident had no alleged connection to domestic violence.Read more
