Teen murder suspect tracked down to NJ home’s yard after dramatic five-hour manhunt: police
A suspected teen shooter wanted for killing one woman and wounding another was cornered by police in a New Jersey backyard following a five-hour manhunt, dramatic video shows.
A surveillance camera from a home in Carteret captured the moment cops surrounded Guarav Gill, 19, of Washington State, who was wanted for fatally shooting Jasvir Kaur, 29, and critically injuring a 20-year-old woman on Wednesday morning, CBS news reported.
Gill, who was hiding around the neighborhood, could be seen putting his hands up immediately near a backyard fence as the officers swooped in and aimed their weapons at him through fencing and shrubbery.
Gill then falls to the ground while a pair of officers approach him from behind, with another cop seen kicking down a fence to get through.
Officers were tipped off about Gill’s location after they set up a containment zone in Carteret, with neighbors spotting the man getting lost due to the many dead-end blocks in the neighborhood.
Lara Lorton, who called in a tip, said she had been on edge all day after news broke out about the shooting in her section of town, with the woman shocked to find the suspect walking around her street.
“I had to look again and make sure that it was actually him. I saw the picture and it matched and I called it in and I was screaming at my front lawn telling the cops where to go on the side of the street,” she told News 12. “They are going past the street and he was on our side street.”
At one point, Gill was spotted running through the woods near Medwick Park, where he encountered Elias Suarez, a local resident who mistook the suspect for a sweaty jogger.
Suarez told CBS that he gave Gill some water, but eventually told him to get away from his house after the suspect asked to use his phone.
Gill was eventually captured in the back of the home of Suarez’s son, Orlando.
Gill was being held at the Middlesex County Adult Correctional Center ahead of his first court appearance.
He was charged with first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree possession of a weapon for unlawful purpose, one count of second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon, one count of fourth-degree possession of a high-capacity magazine and one count of first-degree attempted murder.
Police have yet to name a motive for the shooting.
