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HipChick

(25,485 posts)
Sun May 12, 2013, 01:13 AM May 2013

Police in 30hr standoff,Armed man kills child and Girlfriend, 3 children being held hostage..



A mother and her child are dead at the hands of the woman’s boyfriend, who took the woman’s other children hostage and barricaded himself inside his South Trenton home yesterday afternoon, law enforcement sources said.

Late last night, the man remained locked in a standoff with police, inside the house on the 200 block of Grand Street which was the center of a massive law enforcement presence. Negotiators were trying to convince the armed boyfriend, whom authorities did not name, to let the children out to safety before surrendering himself, Mercer County Prosecutor Joe Bocchini said.

The deceased woman is 42-year-old Carmen Kelly, her first cousin Ray Kelly said. She had five children, four of whom were inside the house last night: two daughters, ages 17 and 14, along with a son in his early teens and a 4-year-old boy. Ray Kelly had not been told which of the children had been killed.

Carmen Kelly’s 19-year-old autistic son, who had been living inside the Grand Street home, was safe with family members last night, Ray Kelly said.

The man holding the children hostage is not their father, but someone Carmen Kelly met when she came to Trenton from the South recently.

“She just met this guy no more than three months ago,” said Kelly, who added that Carmen Kelly was living with his sister prior to moving in with the man on Grand Street.

Kelly confirmed what neighbors in the South Ward also said, that the man went by his nickname, “Skip,” but Kelly declined to give the man’s full name.

http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2013/05/trenton_hostage_standoff_armed.html
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Police in 30hr standoff,Armed man kills child and Girlfriend, 3 children being held hostage.. (Original Post) HipChick May 2013 OP
The man's name is Joe Murphy. Many details about him at the link below: freshwest May 2013 #1
Thanks..women need to be careful who they let around their kids.. HipChick May 2013 #2
I'm sure he put on a good front. We haven't seen how he wormed his way into their family. freshwest May 2013 #4
Those poor kids. Control-Z May 2013 #3
horrible situation. hope it ends soon Liberal_in_LA May 2013 #5
Wow, right after the Cleveland kidnap victims were rescued? Sad. alp227 May 2013 #6

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
4. I'm sure he put on a good front. We haven't seen how he wormed his way into their family.
Sun May 12, 2013, 01:40 AM
May 2013

She may have found out about his past and the link I provided said she was breaking off with him. That's when, as most abusers do, he showed what he really was. Too late for her and her dead child that is still in the house with her living children being traumatized, maybe even abused. A big man with his gun and his sense of entitlement. What a beast.

Control-Z

(15,681 posts)
3. Those poor kids.
Sun May 12, 2013, 01:25 AM
May 2013

They have to have been held hostage inside with this monster for quite some time.

"...Trenton police were called to the home for a well-being check yesterday afternoon. When the officers entered the home, they discovered the partially decomposed body of the woman inside, the sources said."

"After the man brandished a handgun and the officials pulled back, police realized they were dealing with a hostage situation, with the man holding the children, the sources said."

"The body of the dead child thought to have been killed by the suspect is still inside the home, the sources said."

alp227

(31,961 posts)
6. Wow, right after the Cleveland kidnap victims were rescued? Sad.
Sun May 12, 2013, 02:29 AM
May 2013

The 4-year-old kid is going to be the most affected right here!

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