2006 Media Releases:

CAMDEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE
VINCENT P. SARUBBI, CAMDEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR
MEDIA   INFORMATION

January 13, 2006

Camden County Prosecutor Vincent P. Sarubbi and Camden Police Chief Edwin J. Figueroa reported that a defendant is being held on $450,000 cash bail, charged with killing a man found shot to death in a car on Thursday, Jan. 12, in Camden, N.J.

Sylvester Hamblin, 38, of Camden, is charged with Felony Murder, accused of fatally shooting David Rivera Gonzalez, 31, of Delran, during the early morning hours Thursday.

Gonzalez's body was discovered at 11:30 a.m. Thursday in the driver's seat of his red Lexus, which was parked in the 1900 block of South 4th Street in South Camden. A Camden County Sheriff's Officer driving in the area noticed the body inside the vehicle, observed signs of injury, and notified Camden Police. The victim had suffered two gunsot wounds to the head and was dead at the scene.

It is alleged that Hamblin shot Gonzalez through an open front window and then robbed the victim of cash.

Hamblin remains incarcerated at the Camden County Correctional Facility in lieu of bail set during an arraignment today before Superior Court Judge Samuel D. Natal.

All persons charged with criminal offenses are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.