{"id":1840962,"date":"2023-02-09T11:05:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T16:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840962"},"modified":"2023-02-09T11:06:06","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T16:06:06","slug":"second-nj-gop-councilman-shot-to-death-one-week-after-eunice-dwumfour-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-nj-gop-councilman-shot-to-death-one-week-after-eunice-dwumfour-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Second NJ GOP Councilman Shot To Death One Week After Eunice Dwumfour Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsecond-nj-gop-councilman-shot-to-death-one-week-after-eunice-dwumfour-murder%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840962&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-jersey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Jersey<\/a> One week after the murder of Councilwoman, a councilman was found shot to death in a parking lot. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-jersey-gop-councilwoman-gunned-down-in-her-car-police-looking-for-suspect-motive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eunice Dwumfour<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities claimed that Russell Heller (a 51-year old Republican city councilor in Milford) was arrested. <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/09\/nj-councilmember-russell-heller-shot-dead-second-in-a-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shot fatally<\/a> In the PSE&#038;G parking lot, where he used to work as a mechanic. Roughly three hours after discovering Heller, police found and identified 58-year-old Gary Curtis, one of Heller\u2019s former coworkers, as the suspect. Curtis was found dead of a gunshot wound he had self-inflicted, NJ.com. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/2023\/02\/2nd-councilperson-from-nj-shot-to-death-within-a-week.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cIt is with great sadness and shock that we offer our condolences to the family of Milford Councilman Russell Heller \u2014 an outstanding public servant and devoted father,\u201d In a statement that was shared with The Daily Wire, Bob Hugin, Chairman of the New Jersey Republican Party State Committee, said this. \u201cTo see the lives of not one but two community leaders cut tragically short within one week is unimaginably distressing. As we mourn these losses, we are particularly praying for justice and answers in the unsolved murder of Sayreville Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour. May God bless both of their memories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police believe Curtis murdered Heller and then fled the scene, driving to Bridgewater where he shot himself in the car. The motive for Curtis&#8217; alleged murder of Heller has not been revealed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Heller was elected last to the city council on February 20, 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am shocked and saddened by the tragic murder of Milford Councilman Russell Heller,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CongressmanKean\/status\/1623465392524992514\"><\/a> Representative Tom Kean (R.N.J.), whose district also includes Milford \u201cRussell was an outstanding public servant who proudly represented the river town he loved. My prayers are with his family and the Milford community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Milford Borough Council is deeply saddened by the loss and our hearts go out to his family,\u201d According to NJ.com Henri Schepens was the Milford Mayor \u201cHe was so full of life, it\u2019s just unbelievable that he\u2019s gone. Something like this has never happened in borough history. We are very shaken by this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heller\u2019s slaying came exactly one week after 30-year-old Dwumfour, another New Jersey GOP council member, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/prosecutors-office-seeks-to-block-records-on-gop-councilwomans-murder-from-going-public\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found dead<\/a> in the driver\u2019s seat of her white Nissan SUV after being shot as many as 14 times as she pulled up to her Sayreville home, around 50 miles east of where Heller was found dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Since Dwumfour\u2019s murder, authorities have not made any arrests or revealed any information about a suspect or motive, causing frustration from the 30-year-old deceased councilwoman\u2019s parents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far, we haven\u2019t heard anything yet,\u201d Eunice\u2019s father Prince Dwumfour <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/02\/08\/new-video-emerges-from-scene-of-nj-councilwomans-eunice-dwumfours-murder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Submitted<\/a> The New York Post Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor\u2019s office investigating the murder of Dwumfour has requested an injunction to block news outlets from obtaining important information about the case, arguing that releasing any information to the public about the councilwoman\u2019s death would hinder law enforcement\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Jersey councilman was found dead in a parking lot Wednesday morning in a suspected murder-suicide one week after the slaying of Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour.\u00a0 Authorities said that Russell Heller, a 51-year-old Republican city council member in Milford, was fatally shot in the parking lot of PSE&amp;G, a local energy company where he worked. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1840965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[15807,6499,18149,18148,6203,4349,4049,3912],"class_list":["post-1840962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-councilman","tag-death","tag-dwumfour","tag-eunice","tag-gop","tag-murder","tag-shot","tag-week"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}