After breaking into the residence, the father of an 8-year-old boy shot the mother and maternal grandmother while the child was at home, according to prosecutors in Burlington County, New Jersey. Law enforcement soon arrested Pennsylvania man Junior Edwards, 37, and charged him with crimes including murder for allegedly killing Catherine Nunez, 33, and her mother, Marisol Nunez, 54.
Willingboro Township cops began their investigation just after 4 a.m. on Wednesday when called to the first block of Harrington Circle in Willingboro Township, New Jersey, regarding a burglary in progress, prosecutors said in their press statement.
They entered the home to find Catherine and Marisol Nunez dead in an upstairs bedroom. Authorities initially said the suspect left the scene before they arrived. The killings rocked the Hawthorne Park neighborhood of Willingboro Township.
“Barely sleeping. We can’t sleep cause we just don’t know,” neighbor and friend of the women Charlee Harris said before news of any arrest, according to Philadelphia Fox affiliate WTXF.
Authorities now claim that the killer is Edwards, a resident of the nearby Philadelphia-area borough of Lansdowne. He allegedly made his way into the home by smashing open a first-floor window. Authorities found a handgun outside the residence — they think it is the murder weapon.
“The investigation further revealed that Edwards and Catherine Nunez shared an 8-year-old son,” prosecutors wrote. “The child was in the home during the shootings but was not injured.”
Authorities did not immediately suggest a motive in the killings.
“It hurts. It hurts,” next-door neighbor Glenda Sprauve told Philadelphia ABC affiliate WPVI. “And I feel so bad for her son.”
Junior Edwards was arrested Friday in Philadelphia on unrelated charges, prosecutors said.
He is charged with two counts of murder in the first degree, home invasion burglary armed with a firearm in the first degree, unlawful possession of a weapon in the second degree, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose in the second degree, and endangering the welfare of a child in the second degree.
Death penalty for him. Why feed & cloth him for years. He killed people. Why keep filling up our prisons with these killers.
Time to start giving these murderers the same treatment they gave to their victims
So this sicko family decides to neglect a disabled child, and they all go to jail….Wonder why they aren’t given the death penalty for what they did!! They get to eat, breathe, and live another day, while that poor little girl has died because of the torture they put her thru!! No death penalty? What a shame! How about putting each of them in a room WITHOUT food, with a toilet that DOESN’T flush, until they starve to death while the stench of the jail cell they are in, makes them puke!!
None of what you wrote applies to this story. Read it again. You will find that there is no mention of a disabled child here. The two females murdered were both able adults. The only child in the story is a young boy, He was not physically harmed, but I have no doubt that he will have psychological issues for a long time to come.
As to the father, I think that POS needs to be executed, promptly.