Neighbors of a veterinarian murdered by her New Jersey State Police sergeant ex-boyfriend recalled listening to gunshots and a number of other blood-curdling screams after he adopted her house 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 house on Saturday afternoon after police say her jealous former accomplice, 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 informed WABC.
“After which that was adopted by two or three extra photographs,” adopted by a ultimate shot, after which silence, one other neighbor stated.
Semanchik was clearly “terrified,” the primary neighbor stated, including that “it seemed like she was operating.”
The couple referred to as 911, and a squad automotive pulled up “at the very least 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 automotive in Piscataway, a half-hour drive away.
Franklin Township Police Division didn’t reply instantly to requests for remark from The Submit.
Dashcam footage from inside Semanchik’s automobile exhibits Santos’s automotive following her house 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 exhibits, NJ Advance Media reviews.
A white 2008 Mercedes SUV, matching Santos’, is seen leaving a parking house and following Semanchik intently 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 exhibits.
At 6:11 p.m., a determine is seen strolling by a wooded space alongside the driveway resulting in Semanchik’s house.
Round half an hour later, at 6:45 p.m., Webb’s automobile arrives on the home, parking subsequent to Semanchik’s automotive.
Gunshots and screaming have been heard at 7:08 p.m. from the world across the property, in response to 911 calls made on the time by neighbors.
Franklin Township Police Division responded and checked the world, 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 demise has been preliminarily decided to be a suicide, in response to the Workplace of the Middlesex County Medical Examiner.
The stunning case continues to be underneath energetic investigation by the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Workplace.
Anybody with info regarding this investigation is requested to contact Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Workplace Detective Sergeant David Petelle or Detective Quayshaun Brooks at 908-788-1129.
