Murder, dismemberment of NJ man was a ‘violent assassination’

The murder of a New Jersey man who would have been killed and dismembered by three members of the same family was a “deliberately planned and brutally violent assassination”, according to the prosecutors.

The suspect Everton Thomas was placed in police custody earlier this month at the port of Buffalo by American customs and protection agents in connection with the disappearance of Harold “Hal” Miller Jr. The authorities, said that he had tried to flee to Canada before being arrested for murder, decoring human remains and buffering physical evidence.

Everton is accused of having killed Miller, then calling on his wife, Sherrie Parker, 41, and his 22 -year -old son, Deshawn Thomas, to cut the body. They are also faced with accusations of desecration of human remains and falsification of physical evidence, according to the office of the County Prosecutor of Camden.

Miller was initially missing on June 14, after family members found his vehicle in Pennsauken on the same day. He was seen for the last time living days earlier to play with friends in Camden on June 12.

Prosecutors at a hearing this week said they had sufficient evidence to build a file against each suspect, including physical and digital evidence, NJ.com reported. They said they had discovered Miller’s mobile phone inside his vehicle and that his last phone call was in Thomas.

While Thomas admitted to having received the call, he said that the last time he had seen the victim was when they played poker together on the night of June 11 and early the next morning.

There is also a surveillance video showing Miller entering Thomas’ residence on the 2600 block on boulevard Baird in Camden on June 12 shortly before 11:30 am, said the police, noting that a shot had been reported in the region shortly after.

“The accused summoned this victim to his residence and, judge, he immediately killed with a single shot as soon as he entered this residence,” said the prosecutor by NJ.com. “The facts show that it was clearly a deliberately planned and brutally violent assassination of this victim.”

The defendants then bought a chainsaw and other supplies – including containers, cleaning materials, heavy entrepreneur bags, several ice bags, gloves, adhesive ribbon and plastic leaves – before cutting Miller’s body. His remains have still not been found and the reason for the murder remains uncertain.