Eunice Dwumfour, a councilwoman from New Jersey who was fatally shot Wednesday in the neighbourhood where she lived in Sayreville, was recalled by family members and coworkers as a successful newlywed single mother who made an effort to assist others.
Dwumfour, 30, was killed after being shot many times while operating her white Nissan close to the Camelot at La Mer apartment building on Wednesday night.
Her automobile finally hit two parked cars, one of which was a Lexus, and came to a stop.
“It took a second before I realized there was a dead body behind the wheel,” the witness told The Post Thursday.
“There was one bullet hole in the passenger door and a bunch of bullet holes in the driver door. Some other neighbors said they saw someone running away with a mask on.”
The gunman may have used the Garden State Parkway to escape, according to the locals. On Thursday afternoon, about 20 Sayreville police officers could be seen searching the side of the GSP exit to the Jon Bon Jovi Service Area.
Police at the scene later told The Post that Dwumfour was recorded on film speaking to the gunman only moments before her murder, despite the fact that authorities have not named any suspects.
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At least 20 mourners had gathered on Thursday at the home of Dwumfour’s parents in Newark. As loved ones struggled with the unexpected loss, agonised screams could be heard booming off the walls.
The Republican councilwoman, who leaves behind her own 11-year-old daughter, was the oldest of five children in a Ghanaian family, according to relatives who spoke to The Post.
Rita K., one of Dwumfour’s cousins, claimed that he wed in November. Eze Kings, her husband, is a preacher in Nigeria.
“It’s hard to talk about it. It’s so hard. All I can tell you is [Eunice was] a humble woman. She’s very down-to-earth, very collected, laid back,” Rita said.
While Dwumfour’s mother, Mary, was too upset to speak, her father, Prince, said the loss of his daughter was a “big blow.”
Dwumfour, a native of Newark, was chosen to serve on the Borough of Sayreville’s council for the first time in November 2021.
She told TAPintoRaritan Bay a few weeks before the triumph that she was “proud” to have graduated from Newark’s public schools prior to obtaining a Women’s Studies degree from William Paterson University in 2017.
She had allegedly been a resident of the Middlesex County region for more than five years at the time of her election.
Regarding Dwumfour’s decision to leave the place in which she was raised, cousin Kendra told The Post, “She went [away] from Newark for a better life for her daughter.”
A few months after being elected to the council, Dwumfour was given an honorable mention on InsiderNJ’s 2022 African American Power List.
“When [Eunice] was young, I think her dream was to be a councilwoman to help a lot of people,” aunt Beatrice Saahene explained.
“That’s what her dream was. She didn’t do it for the power. She did it for helping people. She was born here, so she was a citizen here. She wanted to give back to the country.”
Dwumfour’s younger sister, Priscilla, said her late sister’s desire to help the community stemmed from her Christian faith.
“She loved God. Every aspect of her life was God,” she remembered, noting that Dwumfour previously served as a volunteer EMT and gave CPR classes.
“She always wanted to help the community, no matter where she was. Even when she came back here to visit us, she would stop by and have conversations with people, invite them to her church – ‘Come, we’ll feed you, don’t worry. If you need a ride, call me.’ She was always like that.”
Dwumfour also found ways to incorporate her faith into her professional life.
“She was a pastor,” Prince Dwumfour said of his daughter.
Eunice Dwumfour was also listed on LinkedIn at the time of her passing as the director of churches for Champions Royal Assembly North America and as a business analyst and “scrum master” for Fire Congress Fellowship, Inc.
Joshua Iginla, a preacher and televangelist from Nigeria, is the leader of Champions Royal Assembly. On social media, Dwumfour frequently wrote about Iginla and the ministry.
She acknowledged the preacher and his wife as her “spiritual parents” in a Dec. 2022 post commemorating her marriage.
Priscilla regretted the loss of her sister as a strong female role model as she reflected on her sister’s legacy.
It’s my sole remaining sibling. There were no other sisters for me to emulate. Now, all I have are my brothers,” she stated.
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