17/11/2025
Trenton-
Man Charged with Fatally Shooting Girlfriend
TRENTON - Mercer County Prosecutor Janetta D. Marbrey and Trenton Police Director Steve Wilson reported that an investigation by the Mercer County Homicide Task Force and the Trenton Police Department has resulted in the arrest of a Trenton man for the murder of his girlfriend on Sunday.
Lamont Truitt, 36, of Trenton, is charged with first-degree murder, first-degree attempted murder, first-degree carjacking, two counts of second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, second-degree unlawful possession of a handgun and second-degree certain persons not to possess a firearm. He was arrested on November 16, 2025, after turning himself in at the Trenton Police Department. The prosecutor's office has filed a motion to detain Truitt pending trial.
On Sunday, November 16,2025, at approximately 5:51 a.m., the Trenton Police Department received a ShotSpotter notification for multiple rounds in the area of Oakland Street in the city.
Trenton Communications also began receiving calls for a female shot in the leg. Responding officers from the Trenton Police Department were led to the 200 block of Coolidge Avenue where they found a 25-year-old woman suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg. She was transported to Capital Health Regional Medical Center.
During this time, another call was received by police reporting a female had been shot multiple times by a man who fled in a silver, four-door vehicle. The Mercer County Homicide Task Force was notified and responded. With a second shooting victim unable to be located, led Detective Luis Vega, the MCHTF and the TPD utilized various investigative methods and law enforcement intelligence to piece together what had occurred.
The investigation revealed that the victim, 32-year-old Alyssia Murphy of Trenton, was in silver Toyota Camry parked on Coolidge Avenue with a friend when Murphy's boyfriend, identified as Truitt, approached the vehicle and began arguing with Murphy. He then pulled a handgun and fired multiple times. The 25-year-old woman was able to exit the vehicle. Truitt then entered the Camry and drove away.
Subsequently, about two hours later, Lower Makefield Township Police located the deceased victim inside of a silver Toyota Camry in Pennsylvania in the area of East Ferry Road and the Delaware Canal.
Prosecutor Marbrey thanks the Lower Makefield Township Police Department and the Bucks County District Attorney's Office for their instrumental assistance in this investigation.
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact MCHT Detective Luis Vega at (609) 989-6406. Tips
can
also be submitted anonymously online at
www.mercercountyprosecutor.com.
Despite having been charged, every defendant is presumed innocent until found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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