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2 sisters found dead in restaurant 1 day after eatery owner’s body discovered, prosecutor says
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Two women were found dead at K & K Jamaican Restaurant in the 1500 block of Summit Avenue in Hillside, authorities said.Google Maps
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Authorities on Wednesday said two sisters were found dead at a Union County restaurant, a day after the eatery’s co-owner was found fatally shot nearby.
The homicides of the women and the shooting death of the eatery’s co-owner, 45-year-old Akanni A. Martin, are connected, according to Acting Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo.
Police on Monday morning found Martin shot in the head in a vehicle parked behind a rental car business in the 1700 block of Morris Avenue in Union Township, Ruotolo said.
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The co-owner of a Union County Jamaican restaurant is believed to have killed the mother of his children and her sister inside of the establishment before turning the gun on himself, authorities announced Wednesday.
The three individuals were identified as Akanni A. Marin, 45, Karen A. Lemaitre, the mother of his children, and her sister, Wanita A. Joffer, acting Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo said.
Union Township police officers approached a vehicle they noticed parked in the back of an Enterprise Rent-A-Car lot on Morris Avenue, where they found the body of 45-year-old Martin early Monday morning, Ruotolo said.
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After a restaurant owner was found dead of a gunshot wound in his car in Union Township, the mother of his children, and her sister, were found deceased in his restaurant near the Hillside/Newark border. (Google Maps)
UNION COUNTY, NJ A day after a 45-year-old restaurant owner was found dead in a rental car with a gunshot to his head, the mother of the man s children and her sister were found dead inside his restaurant near the Hillside/Newark border.
An autopsy conducted Wednesday by the Union County Medical Examiner s Office ruled their manner of death a homicide.
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UNION COUNTY – The death of a 45-year-old Hillside man in Union Township is believed to be connected to the deaths of the mother of his children and her sister in Hillside, according to the Union County Prosecutor s Office.
Early Monday morning Union Township police noticed a vehicle parked in the rear lot of an Enterprise Rent-A-Car facility in the 1700 block of Morris Avenue in Union Township.
Officers discovered the body of Akanni A. Martin of Hillside inside the car and a weapon near his body, officials said. Martin had a gunshot wound to the head and foul play is not suspected, according to acting Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo.