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SAYREVILLE, New Jersey (WABC) -- Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour, from Sayreville, was changeable and killed successful her car connected Wednesday night.
Dwumfour, 30, was recovered wrong her car with aggregate gunshot wounds connected Samuel Circle conscionable earlier 7:30 p.m., officials said.
Police accidental they judge she was the intended people of the shooting, but bash not person a wide motive.
Dwumfour was elected to the assembly successful 2021. She was besides a concern expert and part-time EMT.
Sayreville Mayor Victoria Kilpatrick said the full assemblage is shocked and saddened.
"Eunice was a dedicated subordinate of our Borough Council who was genuinely committed to service each of our residents. The information that she was taken from america by a despicable transgression enactment makes this incidental each the much horrifying," Kilpatrick said. "As Mayor I person worked precise intimately with Eunice successful her clip connected the Borough Council. Beyond her dedication to our community, I tin stock that she was a pistillate of heavy religion and worked hard to integrate her beardown Christian beliefs successful to her regular beingness arsenic a idiosyncratic and a assemblage leader. On a idiosyncratic note, I can't adequately explicit my feeling of sorrow astatine the nonaccomplishment of a friend."
Word of the sidesplitting dispersed rapidly overnight done the governmental assemblage successful the state, which has immoderate of the strictest weapon laws successful the country.
In December, Gov. Murphy signed authorities banning concealed transportation successful alleged delicate places, successful effect to past year's Supreme Court decision. It was instantly challenged by respective rulings that chipped distant astatine the state's quality to enforce successful definite locations. One was conscionable handed down by a national justice Monday.
Sayreville Police and Middlesex County officials are investigating the incident. No arrests person been made.
Gov. Phil Murphy released the pursuing statement, saying helium was stunned:
"I americium stunned by the quality of Sayreville Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour's execution past evening successful an enactment of weapon violence. Her vocation of nationalist work was conscionable beginning, and by each accounts she had already built a estimation arsenic a committed subordinate of the Borough Council who took her work with the utmost diligence and seriousness. I nonstop my condolences to Councilwoman Dwumfour's household and friends, her governing assemblage colleagues, and the full Sayreville community. Sayreville is simply a proud, tight-knit, and harmless assemblage and I cognize that it volition travel together, arsenic it ever has, successful communal purpose. The New Jersey State Police are supporting the ongoing investigation, and I impulse anyone with accusation to interaction either the Sayreville Police oregon the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office."
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