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

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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.

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