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Update On Alleged NJ Double Murder: Man's Chase On Facebook Live
UPDATE: A suspect in the double murder of a young boy and grandmother streamed himself on Facebook Live during a police chase on Thursday.
A suspect in a double murder streamed himself on Facebook Live during a police chase on Thursday.
A young boy and his grandmother were found stabbed to death in their house at 2 p.m. Thursday in Willingboro, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office. The suspect then posted himself on Facebook Live (video below) as sirens blared behind him, saying, "Cops on me."
Terrance J. Matthews, a 23-year-old Willingboro man, has been charged with killing his ex-girlfriend’s grandmother and brother inside of their Eastbrook Lane home late Wednesday evening, according to the BCPO.
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Here is the chase.
Matthews, who also resided at the home, was charged with two counts of murder, one count of kidnapping and gun allegations.
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The investigation began Thursday just after 10 a.m. when Westampton Township police officers
were dispatched to the Wawa store on Springside Road on a report of a woman in distress, according to the BCPO.
The investigation revealed that Matthews and his ex-girlfriend, Krissida Williams, 22, had entered the store, and Williams told a Wawa employee that Matthews had killed her family, according to the BCPO.
Matthews fled the store, and Willingboro Township police officers were sent to the house in the 100 block of Eastbrook Lane to conduct a wellness check.
Inside the residence they discovered the bodies of Jennifer Vassell, 68, and her grandson, Ishon
Mathiln Jr., 9. Both were stabbed multiple times, and Ishon appears to have been drowned in a
bathtub, according to the BCPO.
Vassell was the grandmother of Krissida Williams, who also lives in the Eastbrook Lane
home, and Ishon Mathiln was her brother.
The investigation further revealed that the murders occurred while Williams was at work on
Wednesday evening. When she arrived at the residence after work, Matthews was at the home
and held Williams against her will through the night, according to the BCPO.
The motive for the killings appears to stem from an argument Williams and Matthews had during a telephone call earlier in the day on Wednesday, according to the BCPO.
Matthews was apprehended Thursday at approximately 2 p.m. by the Camden County Police Department following a high-speed chase that ended when he crashed the Scion he was driving into a pole, according to the BCPO.
Matthews utilized his Facebook account to broadcast the chase live.
He was treated and released from a medical facility before being transported to the Burlington
County Jail in Mount Holly. He was scheduled for a first appearance in Superior Court at 2:30 p.m. on Friday.
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