El fiscal del condado de Ocean, Bradley D.. Billhimer announced on March 3, 2022, Tyshaun Drummond, 39, del río Toms, was indicted by a Grand Jury sitting in Ocean County on two counts of Murder in violation of NJSA. 2C:11-3a(1), in connection with the deaths of Nicholas Hardy, 36, del río Toms, and Sergio Chavez-Perez, 32, de Lakewood, in the early morning hours of December 19, 2021, en el municipio de Lakewood. Drummond was also indicted on charges of Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose in violation of NJSA. 2C:39-4a(1), Posesión ilegal de un arma en violación de NJSA. 2C:39-5b(1), and Burglary in violation of NJSA. 2C:18-2b(1).
En diciembre 19, 2021, aproximadamente a 7:20 soy., Officers from the Lakewood Township Police Department were summoned to an apartment complex on River Avenue for a report of shots having been fired. Police Dispatch was able to supply the Officers with a description of the suspect who fired the shots. Responding Officers located an individual matching the description – later identified as Drummond – in front of the apartment complex. Officers ordered Drummond to lay on the ground; when Drummond refused to comply, he was subdued by way of a department-issued Conducted Energy Device (CED).
Upon entering the apartment building, Officers discovered the deceased bodies of Nicholas Hardy and Sergio Chavez-Perez; both men were observed to have been shot in the head. Una investigación de la Unidad de Delitos Mayores de la Fiscalía del Condado de Ocean, Departamento de policía del municipio de Lakewood, y la Unidad de Investigación de la Escena del Crimen de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Ocean, identified Drummond as the individual responsible for the victims’ deaths.
Drummond has been lodged in the Ocean County Jail since his release from a local hospital on December 21, 2021.
Prosecutor Billhimer acknowledges the diligent efforts of Senior Assistant Prosecutor Jamie Schron who presented the case to the Grand Jury on behalf of the State, así como la Unidad de Delitos Mayores de la Oficina del Fiscal del Condado de Ocean, Unidad de Defensa de Víctimas y Testigos de la Fiscalía del Condado de Ocean, Departamento de policía del municipio de Lakewood, y la Unidad de Investigación de la Escena del Crimen de la Oficina del Sheriff del Condado de Ocean, for their cooperative efforts in connection with this investigation leading to Drummond’s arrest and indictment.
Los cargos mencionados anteriormente son meras acusaciones y se recuerda a la prensa y al público que todos los acusados se presumen inocentes a menos y hasta que se demuestre su culpabilidad más allá de toda duda razonable en un tribunal de justicia..
RPC. 3.6(b)(6).