{"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 \u201cwith an apparent gunshot wound to the chest\u201d 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 \u201cheavily populated Frum neighborhood\u201d 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 \u201cwith an apparent gunshot wound to the chest\u201d 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}]}}