Police have identified the man found shot and killed Thursday in a home on Phillips Avenue.
Around 5 p.m. Thursday, police found 47-year-old Trenton resident Devon Hewitt suffering from a single gunshot wound inside a home in the 100 block of Phillips Avenue. Hewitt was pronounced dead at the scene.
He was the second person murdered in Trenton this week.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the Mercer County Homicide Task Force at (609) 989-6406, or call the Trenton police confidential tip line at (609) 989-3663.
A man was found Thursday evening shot and killed inside a residence on Phillips Avenue, making it the second homicide in Trenton this week.
According to law enforcement sources, police were dispatched to the 100 block of Phillips Avenue around 5 p.m. Wednesday where they found a man inside a house suffering from gunshot wounds. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene; his identity is unknown at this time.
Citizens who were at the scene before police ever arrived were surprised when the officers began posting crime scene tape around the block.
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Police have identified the man found shot and killed Monday inside an abandoned house on Sanhican Drive.
Ruhallman Kearney, a 26-year-old Trenton resident, was found inside 16 Sanhican Drive around 2:30 p.m. Monday suffering from gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Mercer County medical examiner conducted Kearney’s autopsy Tuesday and ruled the manner of death a homicide. The cause of death, prosecutors say, was multiple gunshot wounds to the abdomen. Kearney also suffered a gunshot wound to his right arm, according to prosecutors.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the Mercer County Homicide Task Force at (609) 989-6406, or call the Trenton police confidential tip line at (609) 989-3663.
A dead man’s body was found Monday afternoon inside an abandonded home on Sanhican Drive, and police believe his death is the result of a homicide.
According to law enforcement, around 2:30 p.m. Monday, police received a call reporting a “guy inside a building,” and when police arrived at 16 Sanhican Drive, they found a man inside the home suffering from gunshot wounds.
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TRENTON — Assistant Mercer County Prosecutor Brian McCauley is sticking to the plan to make sure Tyreek Anderson does 30 years to life if he is convicted of the shooting murder of Deon Harris at a basketball court on Garfield Avenue in July of 2011.
The defense lawyer today said she might contest police seizure of the gun suspected in the slaying, as well as file other legal challenges to the state’s case against Anderson, 24.
McCauley was unimpressed and told relatives of the victim outside the courtroom, “Don’t worry we’ll get through this together.”
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Anthony Hemingway(Left) and Quosheon Williams (Right)
Quosheon Williams, the fourth suspect captured and charged in the Aug. 16 home-invasion murder of Kayron Jones, got no reduction in his $1 million bail from a judge Tuesday morning in Mercer County Superior Court.
Convicted robber Williams, 23, freshly extradited from a supposedly-planned vacation in Surprise, Ariz., was ordered back to his cell by Superior Court Judge Tom Brown, who held the hearing on video from the Mercer jail.
All four suspects in the murder of Jones, 25, inside his home on North Olden Avenue are now behind bars.
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Patrick McFarlane is going to jail for 60 years.
McFarlane was found guilty in July of the robbery-murder of Bordentown family man Rick Mason at a curbside dice game in the North Ward on May 4, 2008.
Patrick McFarlane
He was sentenced Friday by Judge Robert Billmeier to 60 years for murder and 20 years for robbery, with the sentences to run concurrently.
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A whole month without a murder during the capital city’s deadliest year was too good to be true.
Early Sunday morning, a 24-year-old Trenton man lost his life after his roommate stabbed him to death on the 800 block of South Clinton Avenue in the South Ward, according to Trenton Police Lt. Mark Kieffer.
Kieffer said the victim, Raul Cruz, was stabbed once in the chest by his roommate, Fredy Gonzalez, 23, with a steak knife and later died from his injuries at Capital Health Regional Medical Center.
Cruz is the first murder for the month of September in Trenton, after the previous month saw the capital city break the murder record for a year.
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An Ewing man allegedly responsible for murdering a Trenton man outside a nightclub on New Year’s Day, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office announced yesterday.
DeSean Clark, 32, allegedly cut in line to go into Passions Nightclub on East State Street an hour into 2013 when he was confronted by James Threadgill, 54, of Trenton. Threadgill pushed Clark to the ground and while he was on the ground, he pulled out a .45 handgun and shot Threadgill in the leg and head.
Clark was arrested on Jan. 16 in an apartment complex on Country Lane in Ewing by the U.S. Marshals. He is being held in the Mercer County Corrections Center on $1 million on homicide and weapons charges.
TRENTON — The city has hit a new all-time low: a new all-time high in murders.
The city’s 32nd murder took place in front of the Italian People’s Bakery on the first block of Butler Street Thursday afternoon.
Witnesses described the victim running from two men down Butler Street when they heard five shots. Employees of the bakery found the victim unresponsive.
The previous record was 31 murders that was set in 2005. Stick with the Trentonian for further updates.
