Man murdered in Trenton Sunday
A man was killed outside a store in Trenton Sunday. (Penny Ray - Trentonian)A man was shot and killed Sunday afternoon, marking the third murder to occur in the capital city this weekend. The man was...
View ArticlePedestrian killed by hit-and-run driver in Trenton
A pedestrian was struck and killed by a motorist Sunday night and police are searching for the driver. This is the second hit-and-run accident to occur in Trenton this year.Officials say a vehicle...
View ArticleTrenton murder victim ID’d as 51-year-old Ewing resident
Tyrone KingTyrone “Big Face” King was known by friends and family as a “good dude.”Tragically — like a far too common theme recently in the capital city — King was the victim of gun violence this past...
View ArticlePolice ID pedestrian killed in Trenton
The pedestrian who was killed by a motorist Sunday night has been identified as 61-year-old Rodney Taylor. A vehicle struck Taylor in the 400 block of Chambers Street around 10:20 p.m. Sunday....
View ArticleCo-defendants in Elvin Kimble homicide case receive prison time
Two men who played a role in the 2015 shooting death of 19-year-old Elvin Kimble have been sentenced to state prison after pleading guilty to downgraded criminal offenses.Originally arrested on heavy...
View ArticleConvicted triggerman Randy Washington gets 70 years for grisly Trenton murder
Convicted murderer Randy K. Washington did not want to witness justice being served on Friday when Mercer County Superior Court Judge Darlene Pereksta sentenced him to 70 years of incarceration for...
View ArticleConvicted murderer: I was subjected to excessive force after hitting my...
Convicted murderer Randy K. Washington has filed a federal lawsuit against Mercer County sheriff’s officers and corrections officers, alleging they subjected him to “cruel and unusual punishment” and...
View ArticleJuvenile charged with hit-and-run vehicular homicide of Lea Pringle, 39
A 17-year-old unlicensed driver has been arrested in connection with the March 7 hit-and-run homicide of 39-year-old Lea Pringle.Lea Pringle (Facebook photo)The teenage city girl was charged Thursday...
View ArticleTrenton and Mercer County cops close in on Jamer Greenfield’s killer
TRENTON >> Talaya Greenfield might finally know who killed her son.Talaya Greenfield grasps a portrait of her son, taken when he was young boy. (Isaac Avilucea - The Trentonian)Sworn court papers...
View ArticleHomicide victim from North 25 shooting ID’d as Wilma Rutledge, 58
A 58-year-old woman who died Friday afternoon from senseless gun violence outside the North 25 housing complex has been identified as Wilma Rutledge, who lived on Carver Lane where the shooting...
View ArticleTisheen Mack’s alleged killer gets released from jail pretrial with...
Jihad JenksA suspect has been arrested in connection with the July 23 shooting death of Tisheen Rasheen Mack and then was released from jail on electronically monitored home detention after a judge...
View ArticleGunman who killed Trenton rapper ‘Young Farr’ pleads guilty
Wayne Bush (left) and Jafar “Young Farr” LewisThe gunman who shot and killed Trenton hip-hop lyricist Jafar “Young Farr” Lewis over four years ago has now fessed up, abruptly ending his presumption of...
View ArticleJilted ex-girlfriend gets 17 years for killing Paris France Way in vicious...
The city woman who killed her ex-boyfriend in a May 2015 East Trenton stabbing attack has received 17 years of state imprisonment.Charlotte Carman, 40, was originally charged with first-degree murder...
View ArticleTeen boy: I killed an immigrant in Trenton’s Chambersburg section
The North Jersey teenager who stabbed and killed 27-year-old Carlos Leiva-Oviedo during a June 2016 Chambersburg attack will serve at least one decade of hard time behind bars.Carlos Leiva-OviedoDanny...
View ArticleSheriff’s officer ‘justified’ in Centre St. gunfight against alleged killer...
The sheriff’s officer who engaged Tyleeb Reese in a gunfight during the deadly 35-hour standoff in South Trenton five months ago was justified in firing his service weapon and will not be charged,...
View ArticleTrenton man arrested for vehicular homicide
Michael GanieA city man was arrested last week in connection with the hit-and-run death of 61-year-old Rodney Taylor.Michael Ganie, 53, is charged with death-by-auto, leaving the scene of an accident...
View ArticleThree teenagers arrested for North 25 Housing murder
Zion WilliamsThree teenagers have been arrested in connection with the murder of 58-year-old Wilma Rutledge.Zion Williams, 18, and two 16-year-old males are charged with murder, attempted murder,...
View ArticleJudge frees Trenton man charged with vehicular homicide, prosecutors consent
A city man facing vehicular homicide charges has been released from jail after the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office had a change of heart.Michael GanieThree days after his high-profile arrest,...
View ArticleFourth arrest made in North 25 Housing murder
A fourth man was arrested and charged in a double shooting that left one woman dead and injured a teenager outside the North 25 Housing complex this month.Rahein McInnis, 32, of Trenton, was arrested...
View ArticleLawyer: Co-defendant in North 25 murder case was previously shot, suffers...
Alleged killer Zion Williams has personal experience with handling weapons and getting shot.Zion WilliamsWilliams, who was arrested last week in connection with the Oct. 6 murder of 58-year-old Wilma...
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