Lamont Truitt

By Cecilia Levine From Daily Voice

A Trenton man shot his girlfriend to death and injured another woman early Sunday, Nov. 16, before he was arrested hours later in Pennsylvania, authorities said.

Investigators said Lamont Truitt, 36, approached a silver Toyota Camry on Coolidge Avenue around 5:51 a.m. and began arguing with his girlfriend, 32-year-old Alyssia Murphy of Trenton. He then pulled a handgun and “fired multiple times.” A 25-year-old woman sitting in the car with Murphy was able to get out before Truitt got in the Camry and drove off.

Moments earlier, police had been alerted by a ShotSpotter notification reporting multiple rounds in the area of Oakland Street. Trenton Communications also received calls saying a woman had been shot in the leg. Officers were directed to the 200 block of Coolidge Avenue, where they found the 25-year-old victim with a gunshot wound. She was taken to Capital Health Regional Medical Center, officials said.

A second call reported that another woman had been shot multiple times by a man fleeing in a silver four-door vehicle. Detectives at the scene could not locate her, prompting the Mercer County Homicide Task Force to join the investigation.

About two hours later, police in Lower Makefield Township, PA, found Murphy dead inside the silver Toyota Camry near East Ferry Road and the Delaware Canal.

Truitt turned himself in at the Trenton Police Department later that day. He was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder, first-degree carjacking, two counts of second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, second-degree unlawful possession of a handgun, and second-degree certain persons not to possess a firearm. The prosecutor’s office filed a motion to detain him pending trial.

Prosecutor Marbrey thanked the Lower Makefield Township Police Department and the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office for “their instrumental assistance in this investigation.”

Officials said the investigation remains ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact MCHTF Detective Luis Vega at (609) 989-6406. Tips may also be submitted anonymously online.

Authorities also noted that “every defendant is presumed innocent until found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.”