October 6 Evening News
NJ.COM REPORTED A POLICE OFFICER AND A WOMAN WERE STRUCK BY A SCHOOL BUS IN WEST ORANGE LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON. ACCORDING TO AUTHORITIES, THE PAIR WERE HIT BY THE WEST ORANGE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT BUS ON THE INTERSECTION OF MAIN STREET AND HARRISON AVENUE AT AROUND 4 PM. A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE TOWNSHIP SAID THE OFFICER SUSTAINED A LEG INJURY AND WAS TRANSPORTED TO ST. BARNABAS MEDICAL CENTER. OFFICIALS SAID THE WOMAN WAS ALSO TAKEN TO ST. BARNABAS WITH MULTIPLE INJURIES. THE INVESTIGATION IS STILL ONGOING.
NEWS 12 NEW JERSEY REPORTED A FAMILY WAS FOUND DEAD IN A MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP HOME LAST THURSDAY AFTERNOON. MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP POLICE WERE ASKED TO CONTACT THE RESIDENTS OF THE WILD AZALEA LANE HOME, BUT WERE UNABLE TO CONTACT THEM. POLICE ENTERED THE HOME FRIDAY EVENING, FINDING A MOTHER AND DAUGHTER FATALLY SHOT INSIDE. THEY WERE LATER IDENTIFIED AS 62-YEAR-OLD LORA GRODNICK AND 24-YEAR-OLD SLOANE GRODNICK. OFFICIALS IDENTIFIED THE FATHER AS DAVID GRODNICK WHO WAS FOUND CARRYING A FIREARM, WITH WHAT APPEARED TO BE A SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT TO THE HEAD. THE SOMERSET COUNTY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE SAID INVESTIGATORS DETERMINED THAT THE DEATHS WERE AN ISOLATED INCIDENT AND THERE IS NO PUBLIC THREAT.
NJ.COM REPORTED AN 18 YEAR OLD MAN WAS SHOT TO DEATH NEAR A MAJOR INTERSECTION AND NEWARK HUB, AUTHORITIES SAID. ACCORDING TO ESSEX COUNTY PROSECUTOR THEODORE N. STEPHENS II AND NEWARK PUBLIC SAFETY DIRECTOR EMMANUEL MIRANDA, NAIM BREWER, A CITY RESIDENT, WAS SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES AROUND 8:10 P.M. IN THE 700 BLOCK OF BROAD STREET NEAR WEST MARKET STREET. BREWER WAS TAKEN TO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 9:14 P.M., SAID STEPHENS AND MIRANDA IN A STATEMENT. THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE DID NOT RELEASE ADDITIONAL DETAILS ABOUT THE SHOOTING. ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IS ENCOURAGED TO CALL THE ESSEX COUNTY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE AT 1-877-847-7432.
NJ.COM REPORTED A 36 YEAR OLD MAN WHO KILLED A MAN SEATED IN A WHEELCHAIR HOURS AFTER AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN THE TWO IN NEWARK HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON. SHAEED HALL ALSO RECEIVED AN EIGHT YEAR SENTENCE FOR DRUGS AND WEAPON OFFENSES, THE ESSEX COUNTY PROSECUTORS OFFICE SAID. ON, APRIL 28, 2024, SURVELLIANCE VIDEO SHOWED HALL SHOOTING, 50 YEAR OLD, DESHAUN WINSTON, THREE TIMES, TWICE IN THE HEAD AND ONCE IN THE NECK AS WINSTON SPOKE WITH ANOTHER MAN ON OSBORN TERRACE. PROSECTORS SAID THE EARLIER ARGUMENT BETWEEN HALL AND WINSTON WAS ALSO CAPTURED ON SURVEILLANCE. JUNE 2024, HALL WAS ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH MURDER AFTER HE TURNED HIMSELF IN ON WEAPONS CHARGES. IN JULY, A JURY CONVICTED HALL OF THESE OFFENSES.