2006 Media Releases:

CAMDEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE
JAMES P. LYNCH, ACTING CAMDEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR
MEDIA INFORMATION

March 21, 2006

The Camden County Prosecutor's Office and Berlin Borough Police are investigating an incident that took place on Sunday, March 19, 2006. The victim reports being followed while driving south on Route 42/Atlantic City Expressway south at 1:30 a.m. The suspect vehicle is described as a white two-door Pontiac, late 1990s vintage, driven by a black male in his early 20s and also occupied by a white male passenger believed to be approximately the same age. After the Pontiac followed the victim's vehicle for several miles, both vehicles stopped at the intersection of Westbury Drive and Watsontown-New Freedom Road in Berlin Borough. The victim exited his vehicle and approached the white Pontiac. The unidentified driver, without exiting his vehicle, shot the victim from the car. The victim, a 29-year-old male, suffered a gunshot wound to his left leg and remains hospitalized. His name is being withheld for his protection.

Anyone who observed this incident or who has any information concerning the white Pontiac, please contact Berlin Borough Police Chief Lawrence A. Winters at (856) 767-4700 or Senior Investigator Patricia Taulane of the Camden County Prosecutor's Office at (856) 580-5854.