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Updated: Police Continue Investigation Into Dead Body Found On Phillips Road

July 2, 2018 Crime News

The area on Phillips Road in which a dead body was found on July 1.

Update: Authorities have identified the dead man as 26-year-old Darren Fordham, Jr.

Police said Fordham suffered multiple gunshot wounds, but would not disclose the location of those wounds “to maintain the integrity of the investigation,” according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. The shooting was not random, the release said, although police still do not have a motive.

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