PICTURED: Churchgoing suspect is arrested after New Jersey city councilor was shot 14 times while in car
- Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the murder of New Jersey alderman Eunice Dwumfour
- Dwumfour was shot outside her home in Sayreville in early February
Police have arrested a 28-year-old man in connection with the murder of a New Jersey city councilor who was shot 14 times in her car outside her home in February.
Rashid Ali Bynum, 28, of Portsmouth, Virginia, was taken into custody just before 11 a.m. Tuesday morning and charged with first-degree murder, second-degree unlawful possession of a handgun, and second-degree possession of a handgun for an unlawful purpose.
Eunice Dwumfour, 30, was brutally murdered after dropping someone off in Sayreville on February 1 with friends who ‘targeted and personal attack.’
She crashed her SUV and slumped over the wheel after the attack — horrified neighbors who heard multiple gunshots and then the crash.
Friends initially claimed she was shot in the face seven times, while law enforcement sources at the time said she was shot as many as 14 times.
Although Dwumfour was from Newark and still has family there, she lived as a single mother in Sayreville. She had just married a pastor who lives in Nigeria.
The FBI is involved in the investigation, along with the Sayreville Police Department and the Middlesex County Attorney’s Office, but few details have been released about the investigation.
Bynum awaits extradition to New Jersey, where he will subsequently be held at the Middlesex County Adult Correctional facility pending a remand hearing in Superior Court.
Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the murder of a New Jersey city council member who was shot outside her home
Rashid Ali Bynum, 28, of Portsmouth, Virginia, was taken into custody just before 11 a.m. Tuesday morning and charged with first-degree murder, second-degree unlawful possession of a handgun, and second-degree possession of a handgun for unlawful purpose