Lewis Norwood, 42, and Daphne Conklin Norwood, 45, were arrested recently in Alabama.
EWING -- A couple from Washington, D.C. has been charged with murdering the woman's stepfather in Ewing last month, authorities said.
Lewis Norwood, 42, and Daphne Conklin Norwood, 45, have been charged with first-degree murder and related firearm charges for allegedly gunning down William Blackwell on Oct. 23, authorities announced Monday.
William Blackwell Blackwell was Conklin Norwood's stepfather, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office said.
The prosecutor's office said police found Blackwell shot dead in front of his house at about 5:45 a.m. Oct. 23 and tracked the couple from New Jersey to the nation's capital to southern Alabama, where they were taken into custody recently.
Lewis Norwood was arrested Nov. 17 in Enterprise, Ala. a city of about 26,000 outside of the U.S. Army's Fort Rucker in southeast Alabama. Information about Daphne Conklin Norwood's arrest was not immediately available.
The prosecutor's office did not say what the suspected motive was in killing Blackwell.
On the day Blackwell was found dead, Conklin Norwood posted a picture of herself with him on her Facebook page, and wrote: "Just sitting here in the worst part my life and I am not sure what to do...What horrible things like that could of happen to my daddy."
Ewing man shot dead in front of his house
On the page, Conklin Norwood described herself as originally from Hunterdon County.
On Facebook, Lewis Norwood uses the first name Lee and describes himself as self employed.
Blackwell was 58 years old a native of Hunterdon County, where he still liked to bowl, at the West Hunterdon Lanes in Frenchtown, his obituary said.
He worked at a grinder with the Atlantic Spring Company in Flemington, NJ, for over 30 years and had also worked for Bemis Company, also in Flemington.
Norwood and Conklin Norwood were being held Monday on $1 million and $750,000 bails respectively in Alabama awaiting extradition to New Jersey.
Prosecutor's Detective Joe Angarone - a member of the Mercer County Homicide Task Force - led the investigation with Ewing police.
The prosecutor's office said the Enterprise (Ala.) and Washington D.C. Metropolitan police department, and the U.S. Marshals' NY/NJ Regional Fugitive Task Force assisted the task force in the investigation.
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