Overview
- Police say the shooting unfolded just before 6 a.m. Sunday on Coolidge Avenue in Trenton after Lamont Truitt approached a parked Toyota Camry with Alyssia Murphy inside.
- Investigators report he fired multiple shots, killing Murphy, 32, and wounding a 25-year-old companion who was treated for a leg injury at Capital Health Regional Medical Center.
- Trenton’s gunfire-detection system registered shots at 5:51 a.m., and about two hours later Lower Makefield police found the Camry near the Delaware Canal with Murphy’s body inside.
- Authorities say Truitt took the Camry after the shooting and later surrendered to Trenton police on Sunday.
- He is charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, carjacking and weapons offenses as Mercer County prosecutors seek to keep him jailed pending trial.