There were at least 12 other people between 19 and 35 years of age who were injured and transported to area hospitals. At least one person was listed in critical condition. Some of the injured has been released from hospitals by Monday morning.
One person was arrested. Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae identified that person as 36-year-old Kevin K Dawkins. He was being held in county jail on weapons charges. NJSP Colonel Pat Callahan said he expects additional arrests as their investigation continues.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy called the shooting “horrific.”
“This despicable and cowardly act of gun violence only steels our commitment to ensuring New Jersey leads the nation in passing and enforcing strong and commonsense gun safety laws,” Murphy said in a statement. “No community should ever experience what occurred last night in Fairfield.”
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.
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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.
A transgender woman sued for safe placement in a women’s facility, but was transferred to a men’s prison instead
A transgender woman in New Jersey was moved to a men’s prison after filing a lawsuit alleging abuse at her facility, and seeking transfer to another facility that houses women, according to her lawyer.
Rae Rollins, 25, is a trans woman, and is listed in the New Jersey Department of Corrections offender database as a woman.
She filed suit against the department and several officials and officers in March, saying she was one of several inmates attacked by corrections officers in January and February at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton. The suit sought damages and a transfer out of Edna Mahan to a county facility that could house women.
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