32-year-old man gunned down in car outside Lancaster motel
Alex Ray Goodwin was pronounced dead at a hospital. Two gunmen remain at large.
File photo.(Metro Video)
A 32-year-old man was found fatally shot in a car Friday evening in the parking lot of a Lancaster motel.
Police were dispatched about 8:10 p.m. to reports of a shooting in the 1400 block of the Interstate 35E service road, near the Spanish Trails Inn motel off Pleasant Run Road. Officers found Alex Ray Goodwin in a car at the scene with multiple gunshot wounds.
He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Police said the shooting appeared to have followed an argument between Goodwin and two men in a black, four-door sedan. All three men drew guns, shots were fired, and the two men fled, police said.
David Mowery, Beloved Best Southwest Santa and CPA Passes Away
April 28, 2021
One thing I see posted so often on Facebook is to take photos with your friends. Tell your friends and family how much you love them when you are with them. It especially takes hold today as I search my cameras for photos of Dave and found that all the photos I took, Vicki took, and others might have taken of him and us over the years have vanished with the many old phones which have vanished. I took this photo from an old Facebook posting on his page. It might have well been from that event that he hosted as Santa for GM, but I can’t honestly say. But, suffice to say and remember, Dave loved being Santa at events and being invited to be Santa was a highlight for him. Thank you Dave for all the good times! We will always miss you!
Sierra Club opposes land swap between state and Jackson gun club
Sierra Club opposes land swap between state and Jackson gun club
JACKSON – The New Jersey Sierra Club has submitted comments to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) opposing the agency’s proposed land swap with the Central Jersey Rifle and Pistol Club, South Stump Tavern Road, Jackson.
The proposal is to transfer 43 acres the DEP owns in Jackson in exchange for 87 acres the Central Jersey Rifle and Pistol Club owns in Upper Freehold Township, according to a press release issued by the Sierra Club on April 23.
“This is a bad deal for New Jersey and open space. The state is giving away land to the rifle club that (the club) has already polluted in exchange for a less valuable property,” Jeff Tittel, the director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, was quoted as saying in the press release.
By Jeff Tittel
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is proposing to transfer approximately 43 acres it owns in Jackson to the Central Jersey Rifle and Pistol Club in exchange for approximately 86 acres the club owns in Upper Freehold Township.
The DEP will be holding two public hearings and is seeking comments on the proposed exchange of land.
The first public hearing will be held on March 31 at 6:30 p.m. The second public hearing will be held on April 15 at 3 p.m.
Instructions for participating in the hearings, as well as the public hearing notice, how to submit written comments and a copy of a report analyzing the proposed exchange can be found at http://www.nj.gov/dep/greenacres/notices.html
Road improvements near the city s new Community Justice Campus will look to fix what some in the neighborhood call dysfunction junction.
The current X-shaped intersection of Southeastern Avenue and English Avenue is right next to other intersections with South Rural Street, South Oxford Street and Twin Aire Drive.
David Bacon is the pastor of New Vision Missionary Baptist Church off English Avenue, about a mile-and-a-half east of the planned road work. He s familiar with the intersection s current moniker. It’s dysfunction junction, he said. It is.
Bacon said back-to-back stoplights and sharp turns can make it difficult to navigate. While he said he hasn t seen a crash there himself, he has heard of them. In what is either an example of the intersection s peculiarity or just unfortunate timing, a Google Street View camera captured a crash in the intersection when driving by in August 2019.