A state appellate court has upheld the murder conviction of a man serving a life sentence for the killing of a southern New Jersey police officer shot in his police cruiser.
The name Christopher Matlosz instantly resonates with many New Jerseyans, and people across the country for that matter because his story garnered such national attention. Tomorrow, a charity named for him holds a second annual event to remember fallen officers in Lakewood, such as Matlosz.
On the day a 20-year-old was sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing a Lakewood police officer, the slain patrolman's mother yearned for the kind of Old Testament justice New Jersey courts can no longer provide: an eye for an eye.
A jury convicted 20-year-old Jahmell Crockam of murder Thursday in the death of Lakewood Police Officer Christopher Matlosz who was shot as he sat behind the wheel of his police cruiser last year.
The brother of a man on trial in the killing of a Lakewood police officer has been arrested after allegedly threatening to go on a shooting rampage at a high school if the suspect is convicted.
Jahmell Crockam knew police were coming to arrest him on outstanding warrants and had vowed to kill a
police officer rather than go to prison, a prosecutor said Wednesday.