911 calls: Slain NJ councilwoman's neighbors saw person running away

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911 calls: Slain NJ councilwoman's neighbors saw person running away
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Sayreville Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour was shot and killed on Feb. 1 outside her home. One neighbor said he saw someone shooting directly into her vehicle.

to the Sayreville community of roughly 45,000 residents. She didn’t specify how she knows that.

One caller counted as many as eight shots fired. Authorities have not said how many times Dwumfour was shot. “There was a shooting in our street. I’m in the tub, and I heard gunshots, and my fiance looked out the window and someone just got shot,” one resident told a 911 dispatcher.Eunice Dwumfour was a 30-year old Republican councilwoman from Sayreville, and a liaison to the borough's Human Relations Commission. She was found shot dead outside her home Feb. 1, authorities say.Dwumfour was a first-time borough councilwoman who unseated a Democratic incumbent in 2021.

Gothamist obtained the 911 calls after making a public records request to the prosecutor’s office. It declined a request for police body cameras from the night of Dwumfour’s killing, saying releasing them could compromise the investigation, though it left open the possibility of releasing those recordings later on.

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