Thursday, June 26, 2014

Swat Team on Pleasant Mills Road


Hammonton police have surrounded a residence on Pleasant Mills Road in the Whispering Pines complex.

Alan Hitchens, a resident on Jamestown Boulevard, said he heard shots fired from what he thought sounded like a pellet gun at about 10 p.m. Wednesday.
"The cops told everyone to go inside," he said. In addition, he said a county Emergency Response Team truck and police vehicles from Hammonton and Mullica Township are in the complex.
"They have guns pointed at the house," Hitchens said.

As of 1:45 a.m. Thursday police were still on scene, and telling the suspect to stay visible near a door or contact officials so they know he is OK, he said.
Emergency responders have blocked off the road on Pleasant Mills, between Main Road and Airport Road, as well as access to Dogwood Lane.
Residents are also being denied entrance to the area. 
Officials on site said the barricade was set up at about 11 p.m.
Police gave no information other than they are currently dealing with a "situation."

UPDATE-
A standoff in Hammonton on Pleasant Mills Road ended in a reported suicide around 3:45 a.m. this morning.

Late Wednesday evening Hammonton police surrounded a residence on in the Whispering Pines complex after a woman called and reported her boyfriend Joseph Continisio III, 29, had a gun and had fired at least once shot inside the residence.

6/27/14
Joseph Continisio,III was remembered as "a fun-loving, big-hearted young man from a very good family" by Hammonton Mayor Steve DiDonato on Thursday.
 His family owns Joseph Continisio Builders in Hammonton, which developed single family homes at Valley Wood Estates and Central Walk and condominiums at Grand Oak Twins in town and is currently building 14 homes in the Valley Ridge development on Cara Lane of Valley Avenue.
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/eedition/news/continisio-iii-remembered-as-big-hearted/article_4520e711-966d-58b2-bf28-d5e8062d20ab.html

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's been a month since Lynn DeRosa was killed and nothing has been released. It appears that it's not such an open and shut case.

Anonymous said...

So sad for the family. May he rest in peace