Man found shot and killed in Spring Street Park
A city man who police say was part of a crew known as the “West Hanover Stickup Boys” was found shot and killed Monday in Spring Street Park. According to law enforcement, early Monday morning police...
View ArticleLate night Centre Street shooting leaves one man dead
A man was found shot and killed on Centre Street Monday evening. According to law enforcement, around 10 p.m. Monday, police were dispatched to the 300 block of Centre Street to investigate a reported...
View ArticleAuthorities investigating West Ward Homicide
Keisha AlexanderShe may not have had many friends in Trenton, but those she did have said she meant the world to them.Keisha Alexander, 49, was killed in her apartment on Edgewood Avenue earlySaturday...
View ArticleSuspect in Keisha Alexander murder arrested, charged
The scene at the 1000 block of Edgewood Avenue, where Keisha Alexander was killed in her apartment Saturday morning. (Trentonian Photo/SCOTT KETTERER)A city man has been charged in connection with the...
View ArticleTwo people shot and killed within an 8-hour span
Police are investigating two homicides that occurred within an eight-hour span.According to law enforcement, around 11 p.m. Tuesday, police were dispatched to the North 25 Housing Complex off of...
View ArticleMan arrested in connection with Pinkey Priester murder
A city man was arrested Tuesday evening in connection with the murder of 33-year-old Pinkey Priester.Around 10 p.m. on June 16, police were dispatched to the 300 block of Centre Street where they found...
View ArticlePolice identify Wednesday murder victim; arrest suspect in connection with...
Police have identified a man who was found Wednesday shot and killed in an alley, and they also arrested a city man in connection with the murder of 23-year-old Naquan Ellis. Around 7 a.m. Wednesday,...
View ArticleA year after Garious Burton's death, family still searches for answers
On the morning of June 29, 2013, Kenquetta Cohen was running errands when she first received news of her younger brother’s murder. “I turned completely numb inside,” Cohen said in a recent...
View ArticleFather confronts suspect over plea agreement in son's death
A retired Trenton cop stood up in court to protest today when a prosecutor offered a 10-year plea deal to an accomplice of his son’s suspected killer.Luddie Austin also confronted Raheem Currie as the...
View ArticleBail amount upheld for Trenton man accused of killing Pinkey Priester
A judge kept the bail at $750,000 cash Wednesday for the ex-con charged with shooting ten bullets into Pinkey Priester in the middle of Centre Street on the night of June 15.Murder suspect Tomarkus...
View ArticleTrenton man pleads guilty to possession of stolen car used in drive-by
A drug convict on probation pleaded guilty today to possession of the stolen car used by others in a drive-by murder along Route 29 on Jan. 30, 2012.Luis Alvarado, 24, admitted in court that he was...
View ArticleEwing man shot and killed in Trenton
A Ewing man is dead after being shot multiple times near a city bar early Saturday morning, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s office said.Enrico Smalley Jr.According to Deputy First Assistant Prosecutor...
View ArticleDefense attorney for William Nobles requests neuro exam, enters not guilty plea
A defense lawyer called for a neurological exam Monday for the suspected killer of Celeste Pernell, who was stabbed to death with scissors that were left in her neck.Assistant Mercer County Public...
View ArticleHearing set to determine possible pattern of abuse against murder victim...
A hearing that could expose his past criminal record was set up today for the guy known as Dollar Bill charged with running a former girlfriend’s car off the road and shooting her dead at the curb as...
View ArticleMan shot multiple times in West Ward dies, authorities say
A 23-year-old city man is dead after an early morning shooting in the area of Hoffman and Rosemont Avenues in the city's West Ward Saturday morning. At approximately 5 a.m. Trenton Police were in the...
View ArticleThree shot, two dead in separate Wednesday night shootings
Three people were shot, two of which died, Wednesday evening in two separate incidents that appear to be robberies gone awry. According to police, around 9:39 p.m. Wednesday, two males were shot at the...
View ArticleTeenager accused of murder charged as adult, rejects plea deal
Teenager Masiyah Howard appeared in adult court today to hear that he can get out of prison at age 65 if he pleads guilty now to a 2013 killing that caused racial strife in Chambersburg.Assistant...
View ArticleDouglas Battle pleads guilty to 2012 slaying of Wilfredo “Murder Marty’’ Rivera
An ambush killer who beat up a corrections officer when he landed in jail plead guilty today in a deal slating him for 20 years in prison. Douglas Battle, 23, pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter...
View ArticleKiller pleads guilty to ambushing victim in 2012 slaying
TRENTON — An ambush killer who beat up a corrections officer when he landed in jail plead guilty today in a deal slating him for 20 years in prison. Douglas Battle, 23, pleaded guilty to aggravated...
View ArticleTrenton member of Bloods street gang pleads guilty to 2011 murder
One alleged gang member admitted Wednesday to killing a member of a rival gang in retaliation for being robbed at gunpoint by the rival only days before in December of 2011.Emil Fennell, 26, told...
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