Overview
- Officials charged Lamont Truitt, 36, with first-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder, first-degree carjacking and related firearm offenses in the death of Alyssia Murphy, 32.
- Trenton’s gunfire-detection system alerted officers at 5:51 a.m. to shots on Coolidge Avenue, where a 25-year-old companion was wounded in the leg.
- Investigators say Truitt fled in a silver Toyota Camry, which was found about two hours later near the Delaware Canal in Lower Makefield with Murphy deceased inside.
- The wounded woman was treated at Capital Health Regional Medical Center and provided a witness account to police.
- Truitt turned himself in on Sunday and now awaits a detention hearing after prosecutors filed a motion to keep him jailed.