Jesse Everett murder: 14-year-old shot, killed while parked at Willingboro Township, NJ gas station

WILLINGBORO TWP., New Jersey (WPVI) – Police in the Willingboro, New Jersey community are looking for the shooter who shot and killed a young teenager at a gas station Saturday afternoon.

It happened around 3 p.m. at the Phillips 66 gas station on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

The victim, 14-year-old Jesse Everett, was shot in the head in a vehicle parked at the gas station. The vehicle was reported as stolen, according to investigators.

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Authorities are still looking for the gunman who got out of another vehicle and shot Everett.

“The investigation found that the victim stopped at the pumps in a vehicle that had previously been reported to the police as stolen. Another vehicle soon pulled into the gas station. A man left the passenger side of the second vehicle and approached the vehicle who was Everett. ” in and shot him once in the head, “Burlington County prosecutors said in a news release on Sunday.

Everett was hospitalized where he later died.

Two other people were in the car with Everett but were not injured.

No arrests were made at this point.

The incident will not be counted as a random confrontation, investigators said.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Willingboro Township Police Department or the Burlington County Attorney’s Office.

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