NJ Man Ran Over Girlfriend With Car, Charged With Murder: Cops

UNION COUNTY, NJ — A man was charged and arrested for running over and killing his girlfriend in a hit and run over two months ago in Hillside, according to an announcement from Union County Prosecutor William A. Daniel and Hillside Police Chief Vincent Ricciardi.

Daaim J. Boykins, 40, was arrested in his Trenton home Friday morning in connection with the Dec. 5 killing of 36-year-old Schwnaire Jones of Willingboro.

The Hillside Police Department found Jones laying on the sidewalk near 41 King Street with critical injuries from being intentionally hit by a car shortly before 9:30 p.m. on Dec. 5. She was soon pronounced dead, according to Union County Assistant Prosecutor Michael Cleaver, who is prosecuting the case.

Boykins was identified as the murder suspect after an investigation led by the Union County Homicide Task Force and the Hillside Police Department, with the assistance of the Union County Sheriff’s Office Crime Scene Unit, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office and the Trenton Police Department.

“We are grateful for the collaboration from the local law enforcement agencies who assisted our Office in locating and apprehending the suspect,” Prosecutor Daniel said. “And we hope that this arrest can bring some small measure of comfort to all those grieving Ms. Jones.”

Boykins was being held Sunday in the Union County Jail pending a pre-trial detention hearing to be scheduled early this week in state Superior Court in Elizabeth, according to NJ.com.

Anyone with information about the hit and run is still urged to contact Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Task Force Sgt. Lamar Hartsfield at 908-451-1873, Homicide Task Force Officer Ariel Franjul at 908-347-2212 or Hillside Police Det. Jose Aguiar at 732-221-0910.