Family and neighbors have told media outlets Maria had a restraining order against him because he allegedly had been harassing her. Her uncle posted a statement on Facebook that the driver had allegedly followed his niece to her home for months and the police were notified, but nothing was done.
Other articles have indicated that he later live-streamed a statement about the murders on his gaming stream with tens of thousands of followers. He reportedly made comments about one of the girls on his livestream, targeting her for making disrespectful comments about Charlie Kirk.
The alleged killer is the son of a police officer and related to a local police chief, which some have claimed contributed to the lack of police action against his months long stalking.
The officer is in a different town and isn’t closely related. Some NJ families of Italian ancestry have hundreds of members in the area and aren’t close with most of them.
That’s all good information that would have come up, the fact that he is NOT his son would wrap up most of the conflict of interests pretty quick.
It would come up in an investigation but IDK that many here would know what these families are like. I grew up not far from here and know lots of families like this where their 4th cousin lives three towns over but the families aren’t close.
Shit, I don’t see my first cousins but about once a decade. 4th cousin is nothing to me. I couldn’t even possibly trace my family that far sideways.
The way I read it his dad was a cop, and his distant family member was the police chief who we are saying wouldn’t have anything to do with not following up on the reporting. Maybe the body of text under the article got me confused. Any way about it, they should verify the report was followed up on through the standard process and make sure no officers of any relation were tied to altering that process.
Side note, I have one of those 10+ letter Sicilian last names with parents from the state of NY (not city), so I get what you mean when you say our families aren’t necessarily always close.