The grandmother of now-deceased Rodney Sutphin has a message for a defense attorney who has accused her grandson of ordering the murder of Enrico Smalley Jr. “A dead man can’t speak,” Deborah Ellis, who raised brothers Rodney and Raesean Supthin at her home on Grand Street, said from inside a cavernous conference room at The …
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Did a dead man order the murder of Enrico Smalley Jr.? The attorney for a Trenton man accused of gunning down Smalley outside a crime-riddled city bar in July 2014 believes he has cracked the case. If true, his bombshell allegations would not only exonerate his client, 30-year-old Shaheed Brown, but implicate now-deceased Rodney Sutphin …
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A couple of days after Rodney Ellis Sutphin’s death, police raided his Grant Avenue home around 4 a.m. and pointed guns equipped with laser sights at the occupants of the house. “The cops yelled, ‘Come downstairs right now; open the f***ing door,’” Sutphin’s aunt Tina Ellis said. “As soon as I opened the door, they …
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Two and a half months of relative calm was shattered early Sunday morning after a shooting left one man dead. According to Casey DeBlasio, spokeswoman for the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, police were called to the area of Mulberry Street and Nottingham Way on report of a person shot around 1:19 a.m. When police arrived …
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