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David Shroitman Found Competent To Stand Trial, Fulfilling Victim's Mother's Dying Wish
Janet Pizzelli became known for her fight to see the man accused of killing her 27-year-old daughter, Mary Rose Fealey, face justice.
But when the 61-year-old mother died of breast cancer in December 2025, less than two years after her daughter's murder, she believed that day might never come. Now, months after her death, the outcome she had hoped for has arrived: David Shroitman, the 30-year-old Somerville man charged in Fealey's killing, has been found competent to stand trial.
On Thursday, Aug. 13, Superior Court Judge Peter J. Tober made the ruling, following another…
18-Year-Old Brick Student Killed In Crash Mourned: Remembering Joshua Guarino
Joshua Guarino, an 18-year-old Brick resident and student at Brick Memorial High School, was killed in a car crash in Wall Township on Thursday, Aug. 13.
At 5:36 a.m., first responders responded to Squankum Allenwood Road and found a gray 2006 Honda Civic in the wooded area with extensive damage, Wall Township police said. Guarino, the sole occupant of the vehicle, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
"He had his whole life ahead of him, and his loss has left our family, friends, and community completely heartbroken," Gabrielle Masucci, his cousin, who organized a GoFun…
Sleeping Child Thrown Onto Walmart Parking Lot Pavement: Police
A sleeping child was thrown onto the pavement outside a Lancaster County Walmart, leading to a man's arrest, police announced on Wednesday, Aug. 12.
Justin Martin Wagner, 41, of Lancaster, was arrested following the incident at the Walmart at 890 East Main St. in Ephrata Township at 6:58 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 11, according to the Ephrata Police Department.
Wagner had been causing a disturbance inside the store before witnesses saw him take a sleeping child from a shopping cart, lift the child into the air, and throw the child onto the pavement in the parking lot, police said.
Wagner was la…
Man Dies While Helping Friend With Home Maintenance In Clifton Attic
A man died after becoming unconscious while helping friends with home maintenance inside a Clifton attic on Thursday, Aug. 13, authorities said.
Clifton police, firefighters, EMS crews, and hospital-based paramedics responded to a home on East 9th Street at 11:55 a.m., Clifton Police Detective Lt. Robert Anderson said. Responders learned that the man, whose identity was not released, had been helping the residents with home maintenance when he became unconscious in the attic, Anderson said.
Crews performed extensive rescue and resuscitation efforts, but the man was pronounced dead at t…
6-Year-Old Killed In NJ Car Crash That Injured 10 Mourned: Remembering Brandi
A 6-year-old girl has died following a New Jersey car crash in which 10 people were injured this week.
Brandi Karcher, of Delaware Township, succumbed to her injuries sustained in the two-vehicle crash on Route 173 on Wednesday, Aug. 12, authorities said.
At 4:34 p.m., on Monday, Aug. 10, a Kia was traveling west on Route 173 in Bethlehem Township when it collided with a Jeep SUV making a right-hand turn, Jeffrey Lebron, a spokesman for the New Jersey State Police, said. Aside from Brandi, nine other people were hospitalized in the crash with minor injuries, Lebron said.
A GoFundMe has be…
