A SWAT team responding to a gunshot report at a New Jersey home found a woman dead inside and detained a man, the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office said Monday.
The office told the Daily News that detectives were continuing to investigate.
“We will have additional information to release at some point this afternoon,” the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Chief of Detectives, Francisco Roman Jr., told The News in an email.
The initial call came in at 1:08 Sunday afternoon, the prosecutor’s office said. Somerville and Bridgewater police officers went to the home on Mastogen Drive in Somerville, an approximately 43,000-person suburb about 45 miles west of New York City.
After trying fruitlessly to get a response from the home’s inhabitants, the officers called in a Somerset County SWAT team and crisis negotiators. They arrived at about 2 p.m. and had similar results, Roman said. Entering the home, they first encountered and detained the man.
“Upon a further search of the residence, SWAT officers encountered a deceased female,” Roman told the News. “The adult male was transported to an area hospital under police guard.”
Also working the scene were detectives from the Somerville Police Department, the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit and the Crime Scene Investigations Unit, as well as the New Jersey Northern Regional Medical Examiner’s Office.
“The investigation is in the early stages of a death investigation,” Roman said in a statement released Sunday night. “No additional details will be released until preliminary confirmation by investigators at the scene and the Medical Examiner’s Office.”
