Shortly before 11 p.m. on February 17, 2023, police in Millville, New Jersey, responded to reports of shots fired near 4th and E Streets. Officers found 33-year-old Lamont O’Neill Jones Jr., of Bridgeton, suffering multiple gunshot wounds to the chest. He was airlifted to Cooper University Hospital in Camden but was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

The Millville Police Department and the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit led the investigation. Detectives worked leads and gathered evidence for weeks; on March 6, 2023, authorities announced arrests in the case. Thirty-year-old Maurice L. Jones of Vineland and 31-year-old Edwin I. Torres of Philadelphia were taken into custody and charged with first-degree conspiracy to commit murder and weapons offenses. The investigation into what happened that night is ongoing.

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