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Who knows what might have happened to Elizabeth, New Jersey man Todd West while he was in jail doing time on drug charges? Or was he becoming unhinged well before that? West, 22, has been accused of a series of seemingly horrific murders – all over the course of 3 days and less than a year after getting out of jail.

People.com reports: 

“This is an unprecedented, horrific event here in Union County,” Grace H. Park, the acting Union County prosecutor, said during a news conference Thursday.

Cops are baffled by the violence displayed by the 22-year-old West, who they finally apprehended in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Monday – but only after he’d shot and killed three people the day before.

In late June, authorities desperately pursued West for 20 hours in Elizabeth while he moved from crime scene to crime scene, killing three people and injuring a fourth – for no reason at all, it appeared.

The violence began on June 25 at 2:30 a.m. local time, when cops responded to reports of gunshots fired. They found 28-year-old Dennis Vega’s body lying at the intersection of New Point Road and Seventh Street. He’d been shot multiple times.

That night, at just before 10 p.m., police were once again called in to investigate reports of shots fired and a body in the street. This time they found Jamil Payne, 29.

It was while they were at that crime scene that West allegedly struck again less than a mile away. Police found Kelvin Nelson, 32, dead from multiple gunshot wounds.

And just 10 minutes after that call came in, 24-year-old Richard Marte was discovered with severe bullet wounds, two miles from where Nelson’s body was found. He is expected to recover.

New Jersey Man Accused Of Killing 7 People Over Three Days  was originally published on blackamericaweb.com

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