Grewal named the victims who died in the shooting as 30-year-old Kevin Elliott and 25-year-old Asia Hester. Both were from Bridgeton, Cumberland County.
There were at least 12 other people between 19 and 35 years of age who were injured in the shooting and transported to area hospitals. Most were taken by private vehicle before police arrived. At least one person was listed in critical condition. Some of the injured were released from hospitals by Monday morning.
It was estimated that there were several hundred people at the party, Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae said.
“Many others who were in attendance will carry the emotional scars of Saturday night,” Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday.
Bridgeton shooting: Victims identified, one arrest made after mass shooting at NJ house party
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Authorities provide update on mass shooting at Bridgeton house party that left 2 dead
Kevin Elliot, 30, and Asia Hester, 25, have been identified as the two people who were killed when gunfire broke out at a large house party in Bridgeton New Jersey Saturday night.
FAIRFIELD TWP., N.J. - Authorities in New Jersey provided new details Monday on a mass shooting at a Bridgeton house party that claimed the lives of two people and left 12 others injured by gunfire.
New Jersey State Police say troopers responded to a report of a shooting at a home at 1029 East Commerce Street in Fairfield Township, Cumberland County around 11:50 p.m. Saturday night.
They identified the two fatalities as Kevin Elliott, 30, and Asia Hester, 25. Both were from Bridgeton.
The names of the 12 people wounded were not released in order to protect their privacy and the early stages of the investigation, police said. They said the victims included men and women, ages 19-35, from Cumberland County.
The victims with minor injuries have been released from area hospitals, but several remain hospitalized in dire condition, officials said.
Several hundred people are believed to have been at the party when gunshots rang out, but most of the attendees had fled by the time law enforcement arrived, officials said.
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Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae, joined by Gov. Phil Murphy, identified a suspect and two people killed in the mass shooting at a Fairfield Township house party, but refused to comment further on the ongoing investigation. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
More details have been provided in a mass shooting that occurred late Saturday at a birthday party in Fairfield Township, Cumberland County.
Officials with the New Jersey State Police and the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office identified Monday the two people killed in the incident as 30-year-old Kevin Elliott and 25-year-old Asia Hester, both of Bridgeton.
The 12 people injured were men and women ranging in age from 19 to 35 years old.
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Asia Hester, a Patient Care Tech at Jefferson Health, is one of two people who were killed in Saturday s mass shooting in Cumberland County. (Photo credit: Arthur Shockley)
FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP, NJ Each day, Asia Hester took the long trip from Bridgeton to Jefferson Health Care in Washington Township to care for the sick and elderly. She came to America from Kingston, Jamaica, to pursue a career in health care, and she didn t miss a beat during the coronavirus pandemic. Asia truly had a heart of gold, Nurse Tiffany Kowalchick, one of Hester s co-workers, told Patch in an email. Asia would notify us (her coworkers) if she noticed a decline in someone s condition or felt that someone may be in danger by acting unusual or seeing changes in their vitals (a precursor to danger such as sepsis, heart attacks, coding, stroke, etc). She wasn t just a coworker though, she was part of our healthcare family.