By The newspaper
May 8, 2024, 12:34 PM EDT
A man and woman were found dead with gunshot wounds last night inside an apartment in Clayton, New Jersey.
The two knew each other and it appears they died in a “domestic situation,” he told NJ.com. Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office Chief of Detectives Tom Gilbert.
The victims, who were not identified, were discovered around 7 pm on Tuesday. Gilbert said the shooting was a “contained incident” and there was no threat to the public. He added that he could not comment further at the moment.
Domestic violence is common in New York City and surrounding areas, between relatives, roommates and partners, even with minor victims. Every day in NYC, an average of 747 incidents of domestic violence – including assaults, abuse, verbal abuse – and about 65 homicides are reported annually.
Christopher Gregor is currently facing trial accused of killing his 6-year-old son in New Jersey by mistreating him because “the child was fat,” according to prosecutors.
Last week, a Hispanic ex-convict was accused of beating his mother to death in her apartment in the Bronx (NYC). Days before, a mother was arrested on suspicion of beating her 6-year-old daughter to death in The Bronx (NYC). Her other two children also showed signs of abuse. Likewise in April a mother was accused of killing her 5-year-old twins in the Bronx.
Last Good Friday, a 9-year-old Latino boy died in a burning car behind a high school in New Jersey and his father, a school employee, was accused of setting the fire after a domestic dispute.
At the end of March, a young 26-year-old athlete was accused of killing her mother by hitting her with a pot in their home in the Bronx. Also that month, a son was arrested on suspicion of fatally beating his mother at her home in New Jersey.
In February, Lasasha Gouldbourne (31) was charged with involuntary manslaughter months after her newborn twin was found stuffed in a laundry bag in the Bronx (NYC). Days later, a man was accused of killing her sister by hitting her several times with a frying pan while she was sitting next to her father at a home in New York.
Also in January, a young 43-year-old Hispanic grandmother was shot to death by her partner, who then committed suicide in the victim’s apartment in Brooklyn (NYC). In early February, a mother died and her two children were injured after a gunman opened fire on the family inside an apartment in the Bronx (NYC).
In January, a man was arrested a day after his mother’s funeral on suspicion of strangling her at her home in Staten Island (NYC). Also that month, a man and a woman were found dead with gunshot wounds to the head in an apartment in Brooklyn (NYC) in an apparent murder-suicide. Days before, a Hispanic woman killed her daughters and her husband and then took her own life inside her home in Union (NJ) after receiving an eviction order, authorities reported.
In 2006, the Hispanic girl Nixzmary Brown (7) was killed by her stepfather with the complicity of her mother in Brooklyn. If you are a victim or suspect that someone is being abused, especially if it is a minor or elderly:
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- Call 911, 988 or (800)-942-6906.
- Text “WELL” to 65173.
- Review information at https://nycwell.cityofnewyork.us/es/ and www.988lineadevida.org