NJ councilman Russell Heller shot dead just a week after slaying of Eunice Dwumfour

New York Post

A New Jersey municipal council member was shot dead in his car Wednesday, exactly a week after the unsolved slaying of Republican,Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour.

Russell Heller, 51, was found dead just after 7 a.m. in the Somerset parking lot of PSE&G, the local energy company where the Milford Republican worked.

Cops quickly IDed a former employee, Gary Curtis, 58, as a suspect — and found him dead in his car from a suspected self-inflicted gunshot around three and a half hours after the slaying.




New Jersey councilman Russell Heller, 51, was shot dead Wednesday.


Suspect Gary Curtis, 58, a former colleague of Heller’s at PSE&G, was later found dead in his car.


Eunice Dwumfour was shot and killed outside her home a week before