Video shows a person running behind home where New Jersey councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour was killed
Surveillance video shows a person running behind apartment complex where New Jersey councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour was shot 14 times around the time of her death
- Eunice Dwumfour was killed while returning home to her New Jersey apartment
- Sayreville Police and Middlesex County officials are investigating the incident
- Police believe the mother-of-one was targeted but have not provided a motive
Surveillance video has captured a potential person of interest in the case surrounding a New Jersey councilwoman killed execution-style while in her car.
The footage, sent to a local news outlet on Tuesday, shows a figure seemingly fleeing the scene of the shooting – moments after police said 30-year-old Eunice Dwumfour was gunned down last Wednesday.
Dwumfour was discovered by cops outside her North Brunswick home just before 7.30pm after she was reportedly shot 14 times. The rep’s bullet-riddled body was still seated in her crashed SUV when police arrived.
Witnesses had claimed the gunman was spotted racing away from the Camelot at La Mer apartment complex at 7.22pm, with a 911 call placed shortly thereafter.
Others reported they had seen Dwumfour, a Republican, speaking to a man near her car after analyzing their own security footage following the shooting. Police believe the mother-of-one was intentionally ‘targeted’ but have yet to glean a motive.
They are asking the public for help in finding the still-at-large killer.
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Surveillance video captured a potential person of interest in the case surrounding a New Jersey councilwoman killed execution-style while in her car outside her home last Wednesday
Eunice Dwumfour, 30, was found dead in her white Nissan SUV just before 7:30pm ET – after it crashed near her home on Point of Woods Drive in North New Jersey
The footage, sent in to News 12 New Jersey by an unnamed source, was recorded at about 7.31pm, and seems to show a person running from behind the apartment complex, set in the town of North Brunswick, in Sayreville.
Moments before, cops said the rep’s white Nissan SUV is believed to have travelled about 100 feet away from her residence, before crashing into two parked cars.
The excerpt of the clip published by the NBC News affiliate only lasts a few seconds, with the person in the footage almost impossible to make out due to the video quality and dark conditions that evening.
That said, the video clearly shows the person, wearing black or dark-colored clothing, darting across the frame in a parking area behind Dwumfour’s home.
The scene captured in the clip – one of few clues made public since cops and federal agents began probing the case – coincides with accounts provided to police and the press by neighbors after the shooting, that said they saw a person speaking with Dwumfour moments before the shots rang out.
The footage, sent in to News 12 New Jersey by an unnamed source, was recorded at about 7.31pm, and shows a person running from behind the apartment complex, set in Sayreville
The video clearly shows the person, wearing black or dark-colored clothing, darting across the frame in a parking area behind Dwumfour’s home moments before cops arrived
Witnesses said they saw that same person, who was reportedly wearing a hooded sweatshirt, running between two buildings and jumping a fence before cops arrived.
News 12 said police are currently looking into the video, and are probing whether it has any connection to the murder.
DailyMail.com reached out to the Sayreville Police Department on Tuesday afternoon, as the force continues to investigate the presumably premeditated killing with help from the FBI and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.
The scene captured in the clip coincides with accounts provided by neighbors after the shooting that said they saw a person speaking with Dwumfour moments before she was killed
Witnesses said they saw that same person, who was reportedly wearing a hooded sweatshirt, running between two buildings and jumping a fence before cops arrived
The Republican rep, found with multiple gunshot wounds, was pronounced dead at the scene
Now nearly a week after Dwumfour’s death, officers have yet to make an arrest, and prosecutors have not formally revealed a motive – though, on Thursday, the Garden State’s governor hinted one may have already been discerned.
Speaking in an interview with WNYC, one of New York’s flagship radio stations, Gov. Phil Murphy said that after speaking with investigators, evidence suggests the shooting was ‘very specific’ and not accidental.
Murphy, however, then added that the killing – which reportedly saw the 30-year-old shot at least 14 times – did ‘not appear to be related to her position as an elected councilwoman.’
A few days later, Sayreville police would provide another layer of mystery to the high-profile homicide when it besieged residents in communities several miles away from the site of the murders, all the way on the other side of the Garden State Parkway, for ‘any surveillance footage’ taken between 6:30pm and 8pm Friday.
A few days later, Sayreville police would provide another layer of mystery to the high-profile homicide when it besieged residents in communities miles away from the site of the murders, which transpired in the apartment complex in a normally quiet North Jersey cul-de-sac
Far-away communities asked to hand in footage included the Harbor Club and La Mer developments located on both sides of the interstate highway, as well as anyone who traveled on Ernston Road and Gondek Drive – both of which are more than three miles away from the murders. The parkway, meanwhile, is more than six miles away.
When asked, Sayreville police would not provide a reason as to why they were interested in video taken from so far from Dwumfour’s residence.
On Tuesday, Dwumfour’s father said that even he and and his wife had been kept in the dark about officers’ investigation
‘So far, we haven’t heard anything yet,’ Prince Dwumfour told The Post when asked if police had any updates for him and his wife Mary about the case.
A memorial service for Dwumfour is planned for Wednesday night, with New Jersey Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin and Sayreville Mayor Victoria Kilpatrick among several notable local figures poised to speak at the procession.
She crashed her white Nissan SUV after being shot and killed while driving home
Dwumfour, a Republican who unseated a sitting Democrat when elected into office in 2021, leaves behind a 12-year-old child. A single mother, she recently married a pastor from Nigeria, who is currently still overseas.
In a post to social media, her husband, Eze Kings, called his late wife an ‘angel” and revealed that she had promised to visit him in May.
‘I know you breath through me I will continue to celebrate you as I have promised you I missed you my love,’ Kings wrote.
Cops and federal agents’ investigation into Dwumfour’s death is still ongoing.