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Sayrevillle Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour found dead with multiple gunshot wounds in her car: Police
SAYREVILLE, New Jersey (WABC) — Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour, from Sayreville, was shot and killed in her car on Wednesday night.
Dwumfour, 30, was found inside her car with multiple gunshot wounds on Samuel Circle just before 7:30 p.m., officials said.
Police say they believe she was the intended target of the shooting, but do not have a clear motive.
Dwumfour was elected to the council in 2021. She was also a business analyst and part-time EMT.
Sayreville Mayor Victoria Kilpatrick said the entire community is shocked and saddened.
“Eunice was a dedicated member of our Borough Council who was truly committed to serve all of our residents. The fact that she was taken from us by a despicable criminal act makes this incident all the more horrifying,” Kilpatrick said. “As Mayor I have worked very closely with Eunice in her time on the Borough Council. Beyond her dedication to our community, I can share that she was a woman of deep faith and worked hard to integrate her strong Christian beliefs in to her daily life as a person and a community leader. On a personal note, I can’t adequately express my feeling of sorrow at the loss of a friend.”
Word of the killing spread quickly overnight through the political community in the state, which has some of the strictest gun laws in the country.
In December, Gov. Murphy signed legislation banning concealed carry in so-called sensitive places, in response to last year’s Supreme Court decision. It was immediately challenged by several rulings that chipped away at the state’s ability to enforce in certain locations. One was just handed down by a federal judge Monday.
Sayreville Police and Middlesex County officials are investigating the incident. No arrests have been made.
Gov. Phil Murphy released the following statement, saying he was stunned:
“I am stunned by the news of Sayreville Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour’s murder last evening in an act of gun violence. Her career of public service was just beginning, and by all accounts she had already built a reputation as a committed member of the Borough Council who took her responsibility with the utmost diligence and seriousness. I send my condolences to Councilwoman Dwumfour’s family and friends, her governing body colleagues, and the entire Sayreville community. Sayreville is a proud, tight-knit, and safe community and I know that it will come together, as it always has, in common purpose. The New Jersey State Police are supporting the ongoing investigation, and I urge anyone with information to contact either the Sayreville Police or the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.”
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Report: Man accused of kidnapping, torturing Oregon woman dies from self-inflicted gunshot wound following police standoff
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A week after authorities discovered a woman bound and beaten in a southwest Oregon home, the kidnapping suspect has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a CNN affiliate reports.
Benjamin Obadiah Foster, 36, died in a hospital after an hourslong standoff with law enforcement Tuesday evening in Grants Pass, Oregon, CNN affiliate KTVL reported, citing a police spokesperson.
The standoff concluded after authorities had surrounded the home – under which they believed Foster was hiding – and were trying to convince the suspect to surrender, KTVL reported.
In a statement Tuesday night, Grants Pass police said Foster was “in custody” after the standoff but provided no additional details. The department said it will hold a press conference Wednesday.
Foster was wanted on suspicion of attempted murder, kidnapping and assault after officers found a woman restrained and beaten until she was unconscious in a Grants Pass home on January 24, police said.
Prosecutors have accused Foster of torturing the woman with the intention of killing her, according to charging documents.
The victim was still hospitalized in critical condition as of Sunday, according to Grants Pass Police Chief Warren Hensman.
Foster knew his victim before the attack, Hensman told CNN, saying the two had a “prior relationship.” He did not elaborate but said, “This was not a random attack.”
The suspect had already fled by the time officers arrived at the scene last week, prompting a sweeping multi-day search for Foster which drew a flood of tips from the public and included federal, state and local agencies, police said.
As they searched for Foster, police warned he was “extremely dangerous” and potentially armed. Hensman said he was “definitely a threat to others,” particularly those who might try to befriend him.
Investigators said Foster likely received help fleeing law enforcement. They also warned he could be may have been using dating apps to find potential new victims or lure people into aiding his escape.
When officers responded to a 911 call from a friend of the victim, they were confronted with “an absolutely disgusting scene,” Hensman told CNN. The victim had been suffering the alleged abuses for a “protracted amount of time” before she was discovered, he said.
“This will stay stained in my memory for many years to come,” the police chief said, describing images of the scene as “horrific.”
At least two women who have had relationships with Foster have accused him of attacking and abusing them, according to Clark County court records from cases in Las Vegas.
In the first case, his ex-girlfriend testified that in 2017 Foster flew into a rage and strangled her after seeing that another man had texted her. Foster was charged with felony battery constituting domestic violence, the records show.
While that case was still pending, he was charged with felony assault, battery and kidnapping after his then-girlfriend told police that he had strangled her multiple times and kept her tied up for most of a two-week period, according to the documents.
The woman was finally able to escape by convincing Foster they needed to go shop for food and fleeing through a store, a Las Vegas police report said. When she reached a hospital, she had seven broken ribs, two black eyes and abrasions to her wrists and ankles from being tied up, the report said.
Foster accepted plea deals in both cases. In the first case, he was sentenced to a maximum of 30 months in prison but given credit for 729 days served.
Hartland fire investigation; 6 dead each had gunshot wound
Hartland fire investigation; 6 dead each had single gunshot wound
Hartland police revealed each of the six people found dead inside an apartment building after a fire suffered a single gunshot wound.
HARTLAND, Wis. – Hartland police said Monday, Oct. 24 that all six people – including four children – found dead after an apartment fire last week had been shot. One of the six, a man, appears to have shot himself.
Police Chief Torin Misko said investigators found a “flammable liquid” that isn’t normally found inside an apartment. However, he did not say whether the fire was intentionally set – or whether the man shot and killed his family.
“All six of the decedents located at 700 Mansfield Court in the village of Hartland have a single gunshot wound,” Misko said Monday. “Connor McKisick’s gunshot wound has been determined to be self-inflicted.”
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FOX6 News has identified some of the deceased as 34-year-old Connor McKisick, 33-year-old Jessica McKisick and 14-year-old Natalie Kleemeier. The three others have been identified as a 12-year-old girl and two 3-year-old boys. The police chief said the boys, twins, were the McKisicks’ sons.
While a memorial grows outside the apartment building, detectives are still trying to establish what happened inside and when.
Hartland police update on apartment building fire that left 6 dead
Hartland police revealed on Monday evening, Oct. 24 that each of the six persons, two adults and four children, who were found dead inside a Hartland apartment building following a fire on Friday, Oct. 22 suffered a single gunshot wound. Officials say Connor McKisick’s gunshot wound was self-inflicted.
“We are still working with the Waukesha County medical examiner to try and determine exact times, but we believe it was in close relation to the time of our call, which was 5:11 a.m. that morning,” said Misko.
Misko also said officers have recovered “several guns” from the apartment. The investigation remains open.
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“This is a tragic incident for the family of the deceased, our first responders and the Hartland community,” Misko said.
The causes of death, and whether police believe Connor McKisick shot his five family members, are not yet known. The police chief said it may take some time to learn those answers.
This fire displaced three families from their homes. Now, the community is collecting gift cards for the families’ immediate food and clothing needs. Gift cards can be brought to Hartland Village Hall (210 Cottonwood Avenue) Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. through 4:30 p.m. Fox Brothers Piggly Wiggly in Hartland is also taking gift card donations.
Mystery surrounds man found dead from multiple gunshot wounds in driveway of vacant Buckhead lot – WSB-TV Channel 2
ATLANTA — Atlanta police are investigating after a man was shot and killed in an affluent Buckhead neighborhood Thursday morning.
Channel 2′s Tom Regan learned that parents who were driving their children to school spotted the victim bleeding in the driveway of a vacant lot and called 911.
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Homicide detectives are still on the scene off Peachtree Battle Avenue, where they are working to determined the identity of the victim, who they said is a man in his mid 40s or 50s.
“We don’t believe he lived in the immediate area,” police said. “He doesn’t seem to be from the neighborhood.”
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Regan spoke with neighbors who were out on a run and shocked to learn about the shooting.
“Kids and families walk through these neighborhoods,” Patrick Lewis said. “It’s just unfortunate that these kinds of things happen.”
Police have not identified the victim but said he in his late 40s or early 50s. Police said they are also working to determine a motive.
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Eliza Fletcher: Memphis teacher died from a gunshot wound to the back of her head, autopsy reveals
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Eliza Fletcher, the Memphis teacher who was abducted while on an early morning jog earlier this month, died from a gunshot wound to the back of her head and blunt force injury, according to an autopsy report obtained by CNN affiliate WHBQ.
“Autopsy examination revealed a perforating gunshot wound of the head,” the report from the West Tennessee Regional Forensic Center said. “Based on all the currently known and available information, the cause of death is gunshot wound and blunt force injury of the head and the manner of death is homicide.”
Police say that 38-year-old Cleotha Henderson allegedly passed by the 34-year-old teacher in an SUV while she was jogging in a neighborhood near the University of Memphis on September 2.
Authorities allege Henderson got out of the vehicle and chased Fletcher, eventually forcing her into the passenger seat around 4 a.m. in the morning. Fletcher’s body was discovered four days later behind a vacant complex.
Henderson has been charged with Fletcher’s murder. He remains in the Shelby County jail on no bond.
Fletcher, a mom of two, was a junior kindergarten teacher at Memphis’ St. Mary’s Episcopal School. She was an avid runner who routinely ran 8.2 miles in the predawn hours before her final run ended tragically unfinished.
A week to the day she vanished during her workout, members of Fletcher’s community gathered to symbolically complete her last run. More than 2,100 people signed up to run Fletcher’s route in an event dubbed, “Let’s Finish Liza’s Run.”
Her obituary, published by local news site The Daily Memphian, described her as “a light to all who knew her.”
“Her contagious smile and laughter could brighten any room,” it read. “Liza was pure of heart and innocent in ways that made her see the very best in everyone she met.”
Naomi Judd Died of a Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound, Her Daughter Says
When Naomi Judd, the Grammy-winning country music singer, died last month, her daughter Ashley Judd said that she had lost her mother to the “disease of mental illness.” On Thursday, Ms. Judd was more candid, saying in a television interview that her mother had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at her home in Tennessee, and encouraging people who are distressed to seek help.
Ms. Judd, an actress, told Diane Sawyer on “Good Morning America” that she was speaking out about her mother’s death because her family wanted to share the information before it became “public without our control.”
“We’re aware that although grieving the loss of a wife and a mother, we are, in an uncanny way, a public family,” Ms. Judd said. “So that’s really the impetus for this timing. Otherwise, it’s obviously way too soon. So that’s important for us to say up front.”
Naomi Judd and her other daughter, Wynonna Judd, dominated the country music charts in the 1980s as the mother-daughter duo the Judds. Naomi Judd, 76, died on April 30, a day before the duo was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
In the interview on Thursday, Ashley Judd said she was visiting her mother at her home outside Nashville when she died. Ms. Judd said she went outside to greet a friend of her mother’s who had stopped by, and when she went upstairs to tell her mother that the friend had arrived, she found her mother dead.
“Mother used a firearm,” Ms. Judd said. “That’s the piece of information that we are very uncomfortable sharing, but understand that we’re in a position that if we don’t say it, someone else is going to.”
“Mom was a brilliant conversationalist, she was a star, she was an underrated songwriter,” Ms. Judd said. “And she was someone who suffered from mental illness, you know, and had a lot of trouble getting off the sofa, except to go into town every day to the Cheesecake Factory, where all the staff knew and loved her.”
Naomi Judd was born in Ashland, a coal-mining town in northeastern Kentucky, and lived in California before moving to Nashville in 1979, as a single mother with two daughters.
Ms. Judd supported her family by working as a nurse while pursuing a music career with Wynonna. Their break came in 1983, when Ms. Judd cared for a patient who turned out to be the daughter of an executive at RCA Records. A record deal, nine Country Music Association Awards, five Grammys and 14 No. 1 hits followed.
Ashley Judd said in the interview that her mother was most alive when she was performing.
“She was very isolated in many ways because of the disease,” Ms. Judd said. “And yet there were a lot of people who showed up for her over the years, not just me.”
Ms. Judd encouraged people in distress to seek help and cited resources, including the national suicide hotline and the National Alliance for Mental Illness, a mental health organization that also has a hotline.
“And so I want to be very careful when we talk about this today,” Ms. Judd said, “that for anyone who is having those ideas or those impulses, you know, to talk to someone, to share, to be open, to be vulnerable.”
If you are having thoughts of suicide, in the United States call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 (TALK) or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources for a list of additional resources. Go here for resources outside the United States.
Naomi Judd Cause of Death: Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound
Naomi Judd, the country music icon who died on April 30 at the age of 75, died of a self-inflicted firearm wound, her daughter, Ashley Judd, disclosed on Thursday morning.
Ashley Judd made an appearance on “Good Morning America” to speak with Diane Sawyer about her mother’s death and how the Judd family has been coping in the weeks since. She said her family wanted to control the flow of information about the death before an autopsy was released.
“She used a weapon…my mother used a firearm,” Ashley told Sawyer. “So that’s the piece of information that we are very uncomfortable sharing, but understand that we’re in a position that if we don’t say it someone else is going to.”
Ashley said that she was deputized by her family to discuss her mother’s death in order to shed light on the disease and shine a light on a path for fans that need help.
“My mother knew that she was seen and she was heard in her anguish, and she was walked home,” she said, adding, “When we’re talking about mental illness, it’s very important to be clear and to make the distinction between our loved one and the disease. It’s very real, and it lies, it’s savage.”
Ashley also said that despite her mother’s imminent induction to the Country Music Hall of Fame, she wasn’t able to keep facing the disease.
“Our mother couldn’t hang on until she was inducted into the Hall of Fame by her peers,” she said. “That is the level of catastrophe of what was going on inside of her, because the barrier between the regard in which they held her couldn’t penetrate into her heart, and the lie the disease told her was so convincing.”
Ashley also detailed her mother’s final day.
“It was a mixed day,” she said. “I visit with my mom and pop every day when I’m home in Tennessee, so I was at the house visiting as I am every day. Mom said to me, ‘Will you stay with me?’ and I said, ‘Of course I will.’…I went upstairs to let her know that her good friend was there and I discovered her. I have both grief and trauma from discovering her.”
She also encouraged fans to reach out the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (800-273-8255) if they need help.
In a statement released by Ashley Judd and her sister, Wynonna, immediately following their mother’s death, the two attributed her death to “the disease of mental illness.”
“Today we sisters experienced a tragedy,” the statement said, according to the Associated Press. “We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness. We are shattered. We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public. We are in unknown territory.”
On the day following Naomi Judd’s death, The Judds, a musical duo composed of Wynonna Judd and her mother, was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in a tearful ceremony.
“I didn’t prepare anything tonight because I knew mom would probably talk the most,” Wynonna told the audience during the induction. “I’m gonna make this fast, because my heart’s broken, and I feel so blessed. It’s a very strange dynamic, to be this broken and this blessed… Though my heart’s broken, I will continue to sing, because that’s what we do.”
Official autopsy results show Patrick Lyoya died from gunshot to the back of head, medical examiner says
The official autopsy also showed Lyoya’s blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit, experts who saw a copy of the medical examiner’s report told the Detroit Free Press, which first reported the findings.
The autopsy report from the Kent County Medical Examiner’s Office was obtained by the Detroit Free Press under a Freedom of Information Act request (FOIA). CNN has requested a complete copy of the report.
The office of the medical examiner confirmed the autopsy results reported by the newspaper are accurate.
In a statement Saturday, attorneys Ven Johnson and Ben Crump, who represent Lyoya’s family, called on prosecutors to file criminal charges against the officer for the “unjust killing” and for the release of the Michigan State Police report on the shooting.
A CNN review of state court records found that at the time of the April traffic stop Lyoya had a revoked license and three open arrest warrants. There were a dozen criminal and traffic cases against Lyoya dating back to 2016.
The Lyoya family attorneys declined to comment on the man’s blood alcohol level, or his revoked license and open warrants.
Lyoya, a Black man, was shot on April 4 following a foot chase and struggle over a Taser after police pulled him over for an allegedly unregistered license plate.
The officer who fired the shot was identified as Christopher Schurr, who remains on administrative leave and has been stripped of his policing powers, pending a criminal investigation by Michigan State Police and an internal Grand Rapids Police Department probe into whether he violated department policies.
Kent County Prosecuting Attorney Chris Becker could not be reached for comment. He said late last month that his office is reviewing the case and the timing depended on additional pieces of information, including the autopsy report. He gave no time frame for wrapping up his review.
Grand Rapids police released several forms of video footage capturing the approximately two-minute-and-40-second interaction.
The footage begins with the officer walking toward Lyoya’s car.
The video showed Lyoya, 26, got out of the car to talk to the officer. He is seen turning his back to the officer and appearing to walk toward the front of the car. The officer put his hands on Lyoya’s shoulder and back, saying “no, no, no, stop, stop.”
Lyoya is seen resisting the officer’s touch and quickly backs away from the officer, running away before the officer tackles him to the ground and tells Lyoya to “stop resisting.”
Video showed Lyoya getting up and standing, and the officer deploying a Taser. Police said the Taser was deployed twice but the prongs didn’t hit Lyoya.
The two end up physically struggling on the ground, where the officer shot Lyoya, who wasn’t armed at the time of the shooting, according to a family attorney.
The officer who shot Lyoya is heard saying “Drop the Taser” before firing the fatal shot.
An autopsy commissioned by Lyoya’s family determined he was shot in the back of the head.
The CNN review of state records found Lyoya’s driving license was revoked on March 20, 2022, because of a third substance abuse conviction in 10 years. His license was also revoked in 2021 and 2019 for having substance abuse convictions, according to those records. It’s unclear whether Schurr was aware of this at the time of the traffic stop.
On April 1, a warrant was issued for Lyoya’s arrest in connection with a domestic violence complaint made on the same date. A warrant was issued in another case on April 4 for failure to appear or pay. The judge signed that warrant on the same date that Lyoya was shot by police, but the petition for the warrant was signed March 29.
Another warrant was issued in a case where Lyoya is alleged to have fled the scene of a traffic crash that resulted in property damage. That warrant was issued this February; the crash is alleged to have occurred on Christmas in 2021.
Schurr the officer who fired the shot that killed Lyoya, has worked in law enforcement for about seven years, according to his police union, the Grand Rapid Police Officers Association.
CNN has attempted to reach out to Schurr for comment.
The union said in a previous statement on its Facebook account that it supports Schurr.
The association acknowledged its statement is not intended to “detract from the heartache the Lyoya family is experiencing from the loss of their family member.”
“As tragic as this case is all the way around, we feel a thorough review of this entire situation will show that a police officer has the legal right to protect themselves and community in a volatile dangerous situation such as this, in order to return to his/her family at the end of their shift.”
CNN’s Amir Vera, Amy Simonson, Omar Jimenez, Emma Tucker, Kristina Sgueglia, Theresa Waldrop and Artemis Moshtaghian contributed to this report.