Strother named assistant vice president for public safety
The Office of Communications
May 28, 2021 10:30 a.m.
Kenneth Strother Jr., director of operations in the Department of Public Safety (DPS), has been named assistant vice president for public safety, effective June 1.
“Community caretaking is our mission at public safety,” said Kenneth Strother Jr., who has been named assistant vice president for public safety. “I am honored and excited that I can continue my service to the campus community in this new role.”
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Strother has served as director of operations in public safety since January 2019, managing the day-to-day operations of the department and serving as second-in-command. He will succeed Paul Ominsky, who is retiring on June 1 after leading DPS for 11 years.
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A New Jersey man who thought he was chatting with a 15-year-old boy online was actually talking to an undercover officer, and was arrested when he tried meeting up with him at a strip mall, authorities said.
Kevin Hilbert, 53, of Florence, had been talking to the boy over a social media app for several weeks in April and May, the Mercer County Prosecutor s Office announced.
He was arrested on May 5, after picking up a beverage for the teen at a convenience store and then heading to the Hamilton strip mall to meet him, authorities said.
The undercover officer had told Hamilton soon into chatting with him that he was a 15-year-old boy, Mercer County Prosecutor s Office spokeswoman Casey DeBlasio said.
Bicyclist fatally struck by vehicle remembered as a ‘woman of action’
Updated May 18, 2021;
A woman who was hit by a vehicle as she bicycled in Hopewell Borough last week died from her injuries Monday, Hopewell Township police said.
Susan Waskow, 59, was struck last Thursday, May 13, shortly after 4 p.m. on East Broad Street, police said.
Waskow, who lived in Hopewell, was riding east when a westbound vehicle hit her as it made a left turn onto Princeton Avenue. She died Monday at a local hospital, police said.
The vehicle was being operated by a 67-year-old Hamilton man, officials said.
The circumstances of the crash are still under investigation by Hopewell Township police and the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.
Woman fatally shot in convenience store parking lot, authorities say
Updated May 18, 2021;
A Trenton woman was killed early Tuesday in a shooting at the 7-Eleven store on Lalor Street in Hamilton, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said.
Hamilton police officers responding to a report of gunfire at 1:50 a.m. found a woman, Katherine Montenegro, 23, in the parking lot with a gunshot wound to her abdomen. An ambulance took her to a local hospital, where Montenegro died a short time later.
No arrests or charges, or suspected motive, were publicized by the prosecutor’s office.
Anyone with information about the incident can contact the Mercer County Homicide Task Force at 609-989-6406 or via email at mchtftips@mercercounty.org.
36-year-old killed in Trenton shooting, authorities say
Updated May 16, 2021;
A 36-year-old man was killed in a Trenton shooting Saturday night, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said Sunday.
Police found the man, David Williams, shot inside a car while responding around 11 p.m. to a report of a shooting and motor vehicle crash in the area of North Hanover and Stockton streets, the office said.
The Trenton Fire Department extricated Williams from the vehicle and he was later pronounced dead at a hospital, the prosecutor’s office said. An adult female passenger, who was not injured, was also taken to a hospital for injuries from the accident.