All 3 suspects wanted in ambush shooting of Camden detectives arrested
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP/WTXF) -- The remaining two men sought in connection with the ambush shooting of two New Jersey police detectives earlier this month have been arrested.
Camden County Police Chief J. Scott Thomson said in a statement Tuesday that 19-year-old Alexander DeJesus and 26-year-old Ammar Hall had been arrested in Philadelphia. Twenty-year-old Juan Figueroa was arrested Saturday in Gloucester City, New Jersey. All three men face charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and weapon offenses.
The plainclothes detectives were wounded as they sat in their unmarked SUV at a red light on Aug. 7.
The male detective suffered wounds to his bicep and forearm. The female detective was struck in her hand. Both have since been released from the hospital and are recovering.
Thomson has called the suspects "homicidal maniacs."
DeJesus' mother spoke with FOX 29 earlier last Saturday, begging for her son to turn himself in.
"You're innocent until proven guilty, Alex," said Maribel Torres. "Please listen to me, I'm your mother. I've always been there for you."
DeJesus' family says he had been off medication that kept him clam, and was just released from juvenile detention on a gun charge earlier this summer. He'd gotten his diploma, and was considering college, they say. But they hadn't seen him in several weeks.
"I don't know what it was or if he was at the wrong place at the wrong time, or what it is, we don't know," said DeJesus' uncle William Dominguez. "We would like to know, and we would like to figure it out, but we're just lost."