Neighbors of a veterinarian murdered by her New Jersey State Police sergeant ex-boyfriend recalled listening to gunshots and several other blood-curdling screams after he adopted her residence from work on Friday evening.
Dr. Lauren Semanchik, 33, and her boyfriend, 29-year-old volunteer firefighter Tyler Webb, have been discovered useless outdoors her Franklin Township residence on Saturday afternoon after police say her jealous former associate, New Jersey State Trooper Ricardo Jorge Santos, shot them each earlier than taking his personal life.
“We clearly heard photographs. We knew fairly shortly it was a pistol, which is uncommon, after which, we heard screams,” one neighbor advised WABC.
“After which that was adopted by two or three extra photographs,” adopted by a last shot, after which silence, one other neighbor stated.
Semanchik was clearly “terrified,” the primary neighbor stated, including that “it appeared like she was working.”
The couple known as 911, and a squad automobile pulled up “not less than 10 minutes later,” however police by no means drove up the driveway to talk to the couple, they claimed.
Officers didn’t uncover the grim scene till 12 hours later, by which era Santos was useless by an obvious suicide in his automobile in Piscataway, a half-hour drive away.
Franklin Township Police Division didn’t reply instantly to requests for remark from The Put up.
Dashcam footage from inside Semanchik’s automobile reveals Santos’s automobile following her residence an hour earlier than photographs have been heard.
She left her job in Lengthy Valley, Morris County at round 5:25 p.m. on Friday, the footage reveals, NJ Advance Media studies.
A white 2008 Mercedes SUV, matching Santos’, is seen leaving a parking area and following Semanchik carefully for the half-hour drive again to Franklin Township, the place she pulled into her driveway simply earlier than 6 p.m., footage from the rear of her automobile reveals.
At 6:11 p.m., a determine is seen strolling via a wooded space alongside the driveway resulting in Semanchik’s residence.
Round half an hour later, at 6:45 p.m., Webb’s automobile arrives on the home, parking subsequent to Semanchik’s automobile.
Gunshots and screaming have been heard at 7:08 p.m. from the realm across the property, in keeping with 911 calls made on the time by neighbors.
Franklin Township Police Division responded and checked the realm, however stated they didn’t find the supply of both the gunshots or the screaming.
It wasn’t till 12:22 p.m. on Saturday that police responded to a 911 name reporting an unconscious girl with bodily trauma on the property.
Semanchik and Webb’s our bodies have been discovered with gunshot wounds.
Santos was later discovered useless in his Mercedes SUV, together with a semiautomatic handgun.
His dying has been preliminarily decided to be a suicide, in keeping with the Workplace of the Middlesex County Medical Examiner.
The stunning case continues to be beneath energetic investigation by the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Workplace.
Anybody with data referring to this investigation is requested to contact Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Workplace Detective Sergeant David Petelle or Detective Quayshaun Brooks at 908-788-1129.
