{"id":1943368,"date":"2023-06-03T05:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T09:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-in-new-jersey-councilwomans-slaying-to-remain-held-virginia-until-hearing\/"},"modified":"2023-06-03T05:04:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T09:04:24","slug":"suspect-in-new-jersey-councilwomans-slaying-to-remain-held-virginia-until-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-in-new-jersey-councilwomans-slaying-to-remain-held-virginia-until-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ councilwoman&#8217;s murder suspect to be held in Virginia until hearing."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fsuspect-in-new-jersey-councilwomans-slaying-to-remain-held-virginia-until-hearing%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=1943368&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--><h2>Church Associate Charged with Murder of New Jersey Pastor and Councilwoman<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0603\/e8c8ea25-729b-4b2f-b45c-d3a664f8a56a\/audio.mp3?length=1631277&#038;duration=136\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A shocking crime has rocked the community of Sayreville, New Jersey, where a beloved pastor and town councilwoman, Eunice Dwumfour, was gunned down outside her home earlier this year. Now, a suspect has been arrested and charged with her murder.<\/p>\n<h3>The Suspect<\/h3>\n<p>The suspect, Rashid Ali Bynum, 29, of Portsmouth, Virginia, was a church associate of Dwumfour&#8217;s. He has a long record of arrests in Virginia on charges that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-in-new-jersey-councilwomans-slaying-to-remain-held-virginia-until-hearing\/\" title=\"NJ councilwoman's murder suspect to be held in Virginia until hearing.\">include gun possession<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pair-of-spring-breakers-in-fla-charged-over-suspected-rape-of-woman-found-dead-in-hotel-room\/\" title=\"Pair of spring breakers in Fla. charged over suspected rape of woman found dead in hotel room\">credit card fraud<\/a>, and a string of driving violations.<\/p>\n<p>Bynum was listed in Dwumfour\u2019s phone under the acronym \u201cFCF,\u201d or Fire Congress Fellowship, a related church entity. She was deeply involved with the prosperity gospel group, helping lead services several times a week in Newark and serving as a church treasurer.<\/p>\n<p>However, the extent of Bynum\u2019s involvement with the church remained unclear Friday.<\/p>\n<h3>The Crime<\/h3>\n<p>Dwumfour, 30, had gotten married just months before she was gunned down outside her rented townhome on Feb. 1 as she returned from the grocery store. She married a fellow pastor from her Nigerian church, Champions Royal Assembly, at its Abuja headquarters in November, but her husband had not yet joined her in the United States.<\/p>\n<h3>The Arrest<\/h3>\n<p>Bynum was arrested in Virginia and will remain in custody until a June 29 extradition hearing. A public defender named to represent him in the extradition case did not immediately return a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/john-durham-scores-two-court-wins-ahead-of-ex-clinton-lawyer-sussmans-trial\/\" title=\"John Durham Scores Two Court Wins Ahead of Ex-Clinton Lawyer Sussman\u2019s Trial\">call seeking comment<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5310422\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/06\/03\/id5310422-Rashid-Ali-Bynum-1200x675.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/06\/03\/id5310422-Rashid-Ali-Bynum-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"Rashid Ali Bynum in a booking photo.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5310422\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h3>Community Reaction<\/h3>\n<p>While the arrest raised more questions than answers for Dwumfour\u2019s family in Newark\u2014their lawyer said they do not know the suspect\u2014some in Sayreville expressed relief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was an air of unease, having not had any idea of the circumstances of the crime and the perpetrator,\u201d said Karen Bailey Bebert, a local Republican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rashid Ali Bynum, accused of killing a New Jersey pastor and councilwoman, will remain in custody in Virginia until a June 29 extradition hearing. The hearing was postponed, according to court records. Bynum, a church associate, had lived in Sayreville, where victim Eunice Dwumfour resided with her child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1943369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[543],"tags":[18075,3679,5646,4349,4230,5468],"class_list":["post-1943368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-councilwomans","tag-hearing","tag-held","tag-murder","tag-suspect","tag-virginia"],"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\/1943368","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\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}