It’s been nearly five days since a Sayreville, New Jersey councilwoman was shot and killed in front of her home, but authorities leading the case have not provided any details since the morning after her death.
Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour was shot and killed on Wednesday night, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, which is leading the investigation. The prosecutor’s office acknowledged to some media it was investigating a homicide that night, and that police had found a woman shot multiple times in her car — though that information wasn’t posted to the prosecutor’s office’s Facebook page or its website until the next morning. On Thursday, it issued a press release saying Dwumfour was the victim.
Borough leaders say they haven’t been told anything more — though they stress they don’t believe there’s a threat to the community, even though the prosecutor’s office hasn’t addressed publicly whether that’s the case.
Authorities haven’t given any indication whether they suspect a motive, or have a person of interest identified. No arrest has been announced, and it’s unclear if a killer remains on the loose.
The prosecutor’s office said Friday it wasn’t planning a press conference “because the investigation is still active and ongoing we are declining to comment on all matters at this time,” and that it didn’t have any updates to offer. It hasn’t yet returned requests for comment this weekend and Monday morning.
There’s no universal playbook for how and whether to engage the public during a high-profile case, Robert Bianchi, a former Morris County prosecutor and current defense attorney, said. He said statewide media training for prosecutors would go a long way.
Yet in at least some high-profile cases, politicians and law enforcement make themselves far more available, sharing at least some details.
For instance, a day after a New York City shooting killed a mother who was pushing her baby in a stroller last…
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