Asbury Man Dies After Police Chase-Related Car Crash: Authorities

ASBURY PARK, NJ - An Asbury Park man died earlier this month from injuries sustained from a police chase-related crash in the municipality, officials said.

Dishawn Bellamy, 32, was taken to an area hospital in critical condition on June 5 following the crash that also claimed the life of a 17-year-old shortly after the crash, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office said in a statement. Bellamy succumbed to his injuries on July 7.

The incident took place after 7 p.m. on the 500 block of Myrtle Avenue in Neptune when two Asbury Park police officers attempted to stop a vehicle in connection with an “indictable crime investigation,” the office said. The two officers were also investigating the sound of shots fired in the area.

The vehicle continued to drive for less than a mile until the driver struck a tree, the office said.

A 25-year-old vehicle occupant of Neptune was charged by the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office with two counts of second-degree unlawful possession of a handgun, second-degree certain persons not to possess weapons and obstruction of justice.

The other juvenile occupant was also charged in relation to this incident, the office said.

Firearms were also recovered near the vehicle, the office said.

The incident remains under investigation by the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability (OPIA), which investigates all deaths occurring during a law enforcement encounter.