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Family and friends of Rayquan Brown signed a sheet hanging on Ward Avenue in Trenton Monday as a memorial to the 16-year-old, who was killed Sunday night in a Stuyvesant Avenue shooting.
(Steven Miller/The Times of Trenton)
TRENTON – The search for witnesses to Sunday night's shooting that left a 16-year-old city boy dead and his 26-year-old cousin wounded led authorities Monday to a stash of guns and drugs, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office announced today.
The Mercer County Homicide Task Force seized 236 bags of heroin valued at approximately $2,360, five handguns (four loaded), shotgun shells, .40- and .38-caliber bullets and an air gun at an abandoned house on the 800 block of Stuyvesant Avenue, Prosecutor Joseph L. Bocchini Jr. said Thursday in a news release.
Canvassing the area a day after teenager Rayquan Brown died from gunshot wounds sustained in the second of two Stuyvesant Avenue weekend shootings, detectives saw bullets in plain view at the unsecured, abandoned house, Bocchini said.
Authorities obtained a search warrant and found the heroin, handguns, shells and bullets both on the front porch and inside the residence, Bocchini said.
No arrests have been made in connection to the seizure or the homicide, Bocchini said.
Authorities are encouraging anyone with information to call the homicide task force at (609)989-6406 or the confidential Trenton police tip line at (609)989-3663.
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