Shock in the United States: an African American councilwoman from New Jersey was shot and killed

The State Police of New JerseyUnited States, investigate the shooting murder of Councilwoman Eunice K. Dwumfourof Ghanaian descent, which occurred Wednesday night while he was inside your car in front of your house.

Police responded to a complaint shot just before 7:30pm local time and upon arrival found the 30-year-old lawmaker in her vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds.

She was pronounced dead at the scene and so far there are no further details, according to local media.

To that effect, County Attorney Yolanda Ciccone told ABC News the political position of the adviser it still doesn’t seem to have played any role in murder.

The detectives have your phone and they’re analyzing all aspects of his life (personal, professional, religious) to find out why this happened, adds the same chain.

Law enforcement sources told NBC4 that numerous shots were fired. significant number of strokes – perhaps 10 or more – and that security camera images show Dwumfour talk to a man standing outside his car shortly before the shooting.

Dwumfour was elected in 2021 by the Republican Party to a three-year term for the Sayreville district, with a population of 45,000, in the county of Middlesexin the south of the state.

“The incarnation of an American dream” and a crime that leaves politicians “astounded”.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said he was ‘stunned’ with the news, noting that the councilwoman had earned a reputation as a “committed city councilor who assumed her responsibilities with the utmost diligence and seriousness”.

While the mayor of Sayreville, Victoria Kilpatrick, also spoke “dismay” with his death, “a despicable criminal act.

dwumfour, single motherhe had married last year and worked as a business analyst and project manager, reported the New York Times.

It also reported that the shooting occurred in the vicinity of a complex of three-story condos and two-family homes that line the Garden State Parkway and is within sight of the service area, owned by musician Jon Bon Jovi.

Thursday morning investigators were searching a wooded hill near the avenue, within walking distance of the neighborhood.

Sayreville Police had set up a command post on the victim’s street, Check Avenue.

Detectives were searching the bushes near the shooting, in what appeared to be a look for a weapon.

The same newspaper responded to statements by former Republican mayor of Sayreville Kenendy O’Brien, who called Dwumfour “the embodiment of the American dream“.

She added that the adviser’s roots were in Ghana and that she had forged a “success story” for herself, further saying that she was a very disciplined person.

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