Second GOP New Jersey councilmember fatally shot in one week

A Republican New Jersey council member has been shot dead, exactly one week following the fatal shooting of GOP Councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour.

51-year-old Milford Councilman Russell Heller was found dead on Wednesday just after 7 am in the Somerset parking lot of the local energy company PSE&G where Heller worked, according to the New York Post.

Police identified 58-year-old former employee Gary Curtis as the suspect, and discovered him dead in his car from a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police say he shot himself around three and a half hours after he allegedly shot Heller.