Hmmm: Second GOP council member in NJ shot dead within a week

Milford councilman Russell Heller, who also works as a supervisor at a utility company, was gunned down in a parking lot outside his office on Wednesday by a former employee. Last Wednesday, Sayreville councilwoman Eunice Dwumfour was killed by an unidentified gunman outside her home, in what police called a targeted attack. Heller’s killer was later found dead from a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound. …

Heller was killed less than 15 miles from where Dwumfour was found dead in her SUV with multiple gunshot wounds. Her killer is still at large. New Jersey governor Phil Murphy (D.) attributed both deaths to “gun violence.”

[Abraham Lincoln’s death was “gun violence” too, but that was hardly the takeaway. It’s not clear that this is anything more than a coincidence, but it’s certainly curious. Is the former employee a suspect in the first shooting too, or is there no connection? — Ed]