Crime & Safety

Suspect Sought In Gloucester Township Fatal Stabbing

A woman was killed in the Millbridge Gardens apartments.

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ — A 42-year-old Clementon woman was stabbed to death in Gloucester Township Thursday night, Camden County Prosecutor Mary Eva Colalillo and Gloucester Township Police Chief Harry Earle said on Friday.

Gloucester Township Police found Leydy Barahona on the floor of her apartment in the Millbridge Gardens apartments in the Blackwood section of the township shortly before 11 p.m. Barahona was pronounced dead shortly after Gloucester Township EMS and Virtua Health Systems Paramedics responded to the scene.

No arrests had been made as of early Friday afternoon, and no further information about her death was immediately provided. The apartment complex is located on the 1300 block of Blackwood-Clementon Road.

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Anyone with information is urged to contact Camden County Prosecutor’s Office Detective Dennis Convery at 856-365-3279 or Gloucester Township Police Detective William Rapp at 856-228-4500. Information may also be emailed to ccpotips@ccprosecutor.org.

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