Clik here to view.
William Marshall gets 30-year sentence for murder of Ruschell Fireall
With more than two dozen arrests and nine convictions on his record, William Marshall was a career criminal. But despite his shortcomings, he was beloved by his ex-girlfriend’s family. They had known...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scene of Saturday morning Trenton murder has had trouble in the past
Detectives spent the weekend collecting evidence, including surveillance footage from two city bars, they hope will help them piece together what happened moments before a 39-year-old city man was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trenton bar investigated by AG’s office after second fatal shooting in 2014...
The shooting death of a city man outside of a Trenton bar has drawn attention from the state Attorney General’s Office, which contacted the owner of the bar this week as part of an inquiry into the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Watch: Video of Enrico Smalley murder shows he and Shaheed Brown were...
Surveillance video from the morning Enrico Smalley Jr. was gunned down outside of La Guira Bar shows that someone other than Shaheed Brown gained his attention moments before he stepped outside. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Knovell Desmond pleads down to first-degree robbery
Prosecutors aren’t saying whether one of two men arrested in the slaying of a city barber must testify against co-defendant and alleged gunman Zaire Smith as part of a plea deal that calls for a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mother of teen says police didn’t have permission to question son in murder case
The mother of a Trenton teenager testified police didn’t have her permission to interview her son about potential involvement in the 2012 shooting death of a 21-year-old city man, contradicting a claim...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Judge slaps gag order on lawyers in Enrico Smalley murder case after...
Fearful that pretrial publicity could impede the ability of the state to put on its case against a city man accused in the shooting death of 20-year-old Enrico Smalley Jr., a Superior Court judge...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trenton man to raise ‘diminished capacity’ defense in 2013 homicide case
A city man accused in the June 2013 stabbing death of his former girlfriend plans to raise a mental defense, claiming he was in a “diminished” state and unable to comprehend what he was doing at the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mother of Trenton murder victim talks about struggles of parenting a troubled...
Picture of Jamer Greenfield taken from a memorial booklet from his funeral. (Contributed photo) Talaya Greenfield Jamer Greenfield (Contributed photo) When Jamer Greenfield was eight or nine years...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trenton’s most interesting murders of 2014
No single person’s death is more important than another’s: each murder brings heartbreak and suffering to people who are still living. The loss of any life — be it man, woman, elder or child — affects...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tomarkus Whitfield indicted in Pinkey Priester slaying
The man accused of killing 33-year-old Pinkey Priester was indicted on December 19, the Mercer County Prosecutor's office said Tuesday. A grand jury indicted Tomarkus Whitfield, 36, of Trenton on one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Family claims police are not investigating Rodney Sutphin’s murder because of...
A couple of days after Rodney Ellis Sutphin’s death, police raided his Grant Avenue home around 4 a.m. and pointed guns equipped with laser sights at the occupants of the house. “The cops yelled, ‘Come...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Jersey Attorney General reflects on efforts to turn around Trenton’s...
Less than two months after Acting Attorney General John Hoffman was appointed to the position, 52-year-old Barry Church was struck and killed by a stray bullet while sitting on his front porch.The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2014: Trenton's homicides by the numbers
The numbers in this story are pulled from Homicide Watch Trenton’s database, unless otherwise noted. For more information, use the sorting features of the victims and suspects databases, or explore the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trenton’s North Ward Councilwoman reflects on trying to turn around...
North Ward Councilwoman Marge Caldwell-Wilson in her Mill Hill home.When North Ward Councilwoman Marge Caldwell-Wilson purchased her Mill Hill home in the 1980s, the neighborhood was infested with drug...
View ArticleTwo men accused of killing Tracy Crews will begin trial January 12
Nine days after asking a judge to delay the start of an upcoming trial for two city men suspected in the 2008 slaying of a convicted drug dealer, Mercer County Assistant Prosecutor Al Garcia said he no...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mercer County Prosecutors: Unsolved murder cases are not forgotten
Dating back to 1980, there are 175 unsolved Mercer County homicide cases.In recent months, several relatives of murder victims have voiced frustration because their loved one’s case has not been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lawyer for Trenton murder suspect calls cash bail requirement "injustice"
The attorney for a city man charged with murder in the shooting death of 24-year-old Jahmar Hall said it’s an “injustice” her client remains jailed on a $300,000 cash-only bail while the alleged killer...
View ArticleTrenton teen indicted in connection with Shamere Melvin murder
A grand jury returned a five-count indictment Wednesday charging a city teen with the murder of Shamere Melvin, who was gunned down in December 2013.Melvin, 17, was shot and killed in the 300 block of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Knovell Desmond pleads down to first-degree robbery
Prosecutors aren’t saying whether one of two men arrested in the slaying of a city barber must testify against co-defendant and alleged gunman Zaire Smith as part of a plea deal that calls for a...
View Article