Sisters’ bodies found in NJ restaurant a day after eatery owner found dead, 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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A Jamaican-born man is suspected to have taken his own life after he was found dead inside his car with a bullet wound in Union, New Jersey in the United States on Monday.
A day later, two sisters - one of whom he had children with - were found dead with gunshot wounds inside the man’s Jamaican restaurant in Hillside in New Jersey.
Investigators are trying to determine whether the deaths of the women and the Jamaican man are connected.
The man and one of the deceased women, 39-year-old Karen Lemaitre, owned the Jamaican restaurant.
Lemaitre was the mother of his children, according to acting Union County Prosecutor, Lyndsay V. Ruotolo, who issued a statement about the tragic incidents on Wednesday.