On the evening of July 9, 2025, 53-year-old Anthony Sanflippo was shot and killed in the doorway of his apartment at the Lakeview Apartment complex on the 500 block of Lower Landing Road in Gloucester Township, New Jersey. Witnesses reported hearing a knock immediately followed by a single gunshot; police found Sanflippo deceased from a gunshot wound to the head.

Investigators focused on a neighbor living one floor below Sanflippo after witnesses described a man in a black surgical mask, a head garment with tassels, a long-sleeved black shirt, green pants, and white-and-yellow Crocs. The suspect allegedly stole a vehicle from a witness and fled the state. That description, including the distinctive headwear witnesses said he always wore, led authorities to identify 24-year-old Matthew Lucas as a person of interest.

On July 13, 2025, New York City police spotted the stolen vehicle on West 49th Street; Lucas was arrested nearby for an unrelated crime while still wearing the mask and tasselled head garment. Officers recovered the stolen car key, a .45 caliber handgun, and green pants stained with what appeared to be blood. Forensic testing matched a .45 shell casing from the scene to the handgun recovered. On July 15, 2025, Lucas was charged with first-degree murder and second-degree weapons offenses and held at Rikers Island pending extradition to New Jersey. The motive has not been disclosed.

Did anyone living at Lakeview Apartments notice anything unusual near the lower-level units the week of July 9?