Woman Found Dead In Car At Brick 7-Eleven Identified: Prosecutor

BRICK, NJ — A woman who was found dead in a car in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven on Burnt Tavern Road has been identified as a Philadelphia woman, the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office said Thursday.

The body of Moiyamoe Foffanah, 21, of Philadelphia, was taken to Community Medical Center, Toms River, for an autopsy to determine the cause of death, said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the prosecutor's office.

There were no outward signs of trauma and a search of the car turned up nothing that gave a clue to the cause, Della Fave said.

Della Fave said Detective John Murphy from the prosecutor's office and Detective Ralph Laudicina from the sheriff's department responded to the 7-Eleven at 1151 Burnt Tavern Road at 7:19 p.m.

Detective Mark Byrne from the Brick Township Police Department told them a Brick Township patrol officer had discovered the woman's body after the officer saw a blue Honda sitting in the parking lot that had been there the previous evening in the same spot, with a woman sitting in the front passenger seat.

When the patrolman approached the vehicle, he saw the woman in the passenger seat was unconscious and unresponsive and forced entry into the car, where the patrol officer found Foffanah to be deceased.

Dr. Leslie Cauvin from the Ocean County Medical Examiner's Office pronounced Foffanah dead at 7:30 p.m., Della Fave said.

Laudicina, from the sheriff's CSI unit, processed and photographed the scene, Della Fave said, and a search of the vehicle yielded negative results.

The investigation is continuing pending the medical examiner's report on the cause of death, Della Fave said.

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