Leroy Tutt
A man who was notoriously shot in the butt earlier this year has been arrested in connection a capital city murder.
Leroy Tutt, 30, was arrested Saturday night and charged in connection with the murder of 19-year-old Nebate Anderson. Trenton patrol cops saw Tutt driving a vehicle near the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Evans Avenue and arrested him in connection with warrants issued as a result of Anderson's death.
Anderson was gunned down on June 30 in the first block of Sanford Street, where police found him lying on the ground between a car and a minivan. He lived across the street from where he was shot.
Before his death, police issued a warrant for Anderson’s arrest in connection with a prior shooting. However, officials never publicly stated who they believed Anderson shot.
Nebate Anderson
Perhaps coincidentally, Tutt was shot in the butt on the afternoon of April 26 in the 600 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Sources say Tutt ran into a deli as a gunman fired at him. The incident left the business with a shattered glass door.
The gunman and the victim fled the scene before police arrived, but Tutt later walked into the hospital to seek treatment for a gunshot wound to the butt.
Tutt has a record of violent criminal offenses. Public records show he was arrested in 2013 for aggravated assault and weapons offenses. He was paroled in October 2015 and released from custody in June of last year.
So far this year, this 8-square-mile capital city has experienced 15 homicides. Twelve of those victims died by gunfire, two were stabbed to death, and one was killed by a hit-and-run driver.
The latest victim, 21-year-old Jerome Thomas, of Franklin Township, was shot and killed while sitting inside his vehicle in the 600 block of Southard Street Friday night. The gunman remains on the run.