{"id":5504,"date":"2021-02-22T13:18:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T18:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=5504"},"modified":"2021-02-22T13:18:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T18:18:43","slug":"lakewood-homicide-victim-was-ocean-county-man-20-prosecutors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2021\/02\/lakewood-homicide-victim-was-ocean-county-man-20-prosecutors-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakewood Homicide Victim Was Ocean County Man, 20, Prosecutors Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16160\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lakewood_pd.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16160\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16160\" src=\"https:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lakewood_pd.jpg\" alt=\"Lakewood, N.J. police vehicles. (Photo: Lakewood Police Department\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakewood, N.J. police vehicles. (Photo: Lakewood Police Department\/Facebook)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The victim of a fatal shooting Sunday night in Lakewood was a 20-year-old man from Little Egg Harbor, investigators said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Dajour Randolph, 20, of Little Egg Harbor, was found by first responders &#8220;with an apparent gunshot wound to the chest&#8221; after police responded to a 911 call at approximately 7:40 p.m on Tudor Court in the Coventry Square subdivision. The caller told 911 operators that they had seen a person collapse in the middle of the street.<\/p>\n<p>Randolph was transported to Monmouth Medical Center, Southern Campus, in Lakewood, where he subsequently succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n<p>No more details have been revealed by officials. The neighborhood in which the incident occurred was described as a &#8220;heavily populated Frum neighborhood&#8221; by local news website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelakewoodscoop.com\/news\/2021\/02\/breaking-at-least-one-seriously-injured-in-shooting-in-lakewood-video.html\">The Lakewood Scoop<\/a>, indicating its residents were primarily Orthodox Jewish. The website also reported that Lakewood police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelakewoodscoop.com\/news\/2021\/02\/new-dashcam-video-shows-victim-moments-before-and-moments-after-fatal-shooting-in-lakewood.html\">executed a search warrant<\/a> on a home that had an alleged connection with the shooting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2021\/02\/lakewood-homicide-victim-was-ocean-county-man-20-prosecutors-say\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The victim of a fatal shooting Sunday night in Lakewood was a 20-year-old man from Little Egg Harbor, investigators said Monday. Dajour Randolph, 20, of Little Egg Harbor, was found by first responders &#8220;with an apparent gunshot wound to the chest&#8221; after police responded to a 911 call at approximately 7:40 p.m on Tudor Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[44,536,11],"class_list":["post-5504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-lakewood","tag-shooting","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/lakewood_pd.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}