Last week, Breaking Digest reported on the murder of New Jersey GOP councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour.
Dwumfour, 30, was found was found dead outside her Sayreville home in what officials believe was a “targeted” attack.
Dwumfour’s death is being investigated as a homicide.
One week later, the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office reported that New Jersey municipal council member Russell Heller, also a Republican, was found shot dead in his car.
Police identified a former employee, Gary Curtis, 58, as a suspect and found him dead in his car from a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound a few hours after the fatal shooting.
The New York Post reports:
Russell Heller, 51, was found dead just after 7 a.m. in the Somerset parking lot of PSE&G, the local energy company where the Milford Republican worked.
Cops quickly IDed a former employee, Gary Curtis, 58, as a suspect — and found him dead in his car from a suspected self-inflicted gunshot around three and a half hours after the slaying.
The councilman’s murder came exactly a week after Sayreville Councilwoman Dwumfour — also a Republican — was gunned down in her SUV outside her home about 15 miles away. Her murder remains unsolved.
Authorities have not linked the crimes, and the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office insisted that Heller’s murder appeared to be “an isolated incident.”
PSE&G released the following statement:
What the heck is going on in New Jersey?
