To friends of the victim. Reporter and they all say he was a kind and wonderful guy and theyre deeply grieving about his untimely passing. He was a father of two. He passed away after being hit by a hitandrun driver at this gas station on monday afternoon and an intense manhunt continues tonight for the hitandrun driver who never stopped and looked back at what hed done. Local police and Mercer County prosecutor need help in finding the suspect who left man to ultimately die. Charles nevius jr. Resided in trenton but he was most popular here in Lawrence Township where he long worked as a gas attendant at this quick check. A hitandrun driver struck him monday afternoon while he was trying to flee a separate hitandrun of a vehicle seconds earlier here on the stations lot. Witnesses say negative yes was trying to say nevius was trying to stop the driver. The Good Samaritan known as simply chucky the father of two passed away the next day at age 28. Him trying to intervene with a Traffic O
Had no idea the shooting had happened until a flood of cop cars swarmed their neighborhood block. The detectives came up and asked us if we flu who this other guy in the house was with the boy that got shot. Theres two of them in there he said and we didnt know. We told him no, we didnt know. Reporter you didnt hear any gun shots whatsoever. Nothing, nothing. Nobody seen nothing or heard nothing. Reporter now, todays double shooting means that the city has now is you is your pase number of homicides from last year. A judge sentenced 18yearold Michael Shelley to 11 and a half to 23 months in the bucks county jail. The former Bucks County Technical High School student was convicted of homicide by vehicle in the death of 16yearold minete zeka last december. Shelley drove around a stopped school bus there its stop line out and lights flashing. The sentence includes five years probation. A woman from Delaware County faces dui charges after a fiery head on crash on i295 in west deptford. Pol
Yes, even this man. It is wednesday night, and the big story on action news tonight is a diplomatic bomb shell. America and cuba will start the process of normal icing relations. The news started to unfold today with the release of American Government contract worker alan gross from five years in a cuban prison. Also released was a cuban spy spending 20 years in jail after working for the u. S. The American Government released three cuban prisoners, a swap, back in washington, gross smiled broadly to reveal missing teeth he lost while in jail. He a said his release is a game changer. Indeed, it might be. It turns out that pope francis, the worlds first latin american pope, hosted high ranking officials from washington and havana to talk about the Prisoner Exchange and those discussions expanded into normal icing relations. The the u. S. Economic embargo in cuba began in 1961, two years after the revolution that brought fidel castro to power but more and more officials are concluding th
Appeared to have been set on purpose. Arson doggies looking to see if there is flammable liquids. We are considering this suspicious hat this time. Reporter police say they have no suspects but they dont think neighbors need to worry about further danger. Atlantic county Prosecutors Office spent the day at the house piecing together the investigation in the two deaths. It is hard, you know when children are involved. Reporter neighbors say loss of a child is unspeakable and they want to know how it all happened. Nothing ever happens around here, so it is very scary, and strange at the same time. Reporter the local School District says that they have done a call this afternoon to all of the parents in the district letting them know about the boys death and also letting them know that there will be grief counselors on hand tomorrow, the autopsy is scheduled for tomorrow as well. We are live from egg harbor city, cleve bryan, cbs3 Eyewitness News. A woman suffered burns in a row house fir
Zeka, police say she was struck and killed crossing a bensalem boulevard at bridge water road trying to catch her best this morning and another teenager was driving a car that hit her. Action News Reporter Kenneth Moton joins us live from the scene, kenneth. Reporter shirleen, the School District says there have have been other accidents at this busy intersection over the years, but that is why so many are asking tonight, what is next to stop another tragedy . Tonight, it started with a handfull of friend lighting can also, honoring 16 yearold bensalem high sophomore mennet z eka, it turned into this dozens holding a vigil. She will be missed buy a lot of people. I want everybody to remember that he was a free spirit, and that she was, she was her own person. Reporter this morning investigators say she was crossing bensalem boulevard at bridge water road to catch her waiting bus. It stopped sign out, and its flashing red lights, activated but police say an 18 yearold Bucks County Techn