Officials: Suspect's parents hid evidence in Woodbury house sitter murder

WOODBURY, NJ (WTXF) - Two New Jersey parents are facing charges after police say they hindered an investigating into their son, who is accused of murdering a woman while she was house sitting in Woodbury, New Jersey.

Police say David Wilson, 52, and Kim Ward, 50, were charged with hindering apprehension of their son on Monday. According to investigators, Wilson and Ward cleaned and concealed sneakers that were evidence in the homicide investigation.

Their son, 19-year-old Brandon Wilson, was charged in the murder of Shawneeq Carter after police say she was found beaten to death inside a home she was house sitting for a friend back in September.

Officials say Brandon called his parents from jail and asked that they throw out two pair of sneakers in his room in their home.

A search was executed at the home that same day, and the sneakers were located in the attic and appeared to have been cleaned with some type of solution, according to police.

Brandon Wilson has also been charged with hindering his own apprehension in the incident and faces a number of other charges, including first-degree murder.

According to the investigators' affidavit of probable cause, Wilson was seen on surveillance video on Hopkins Street the night before Carter was found deceased.

Wilson had lived in the Hopkins Street house as a foster child for less than a year in 2015. In August 2016, he was arrested for unlawful trespass in the same house and found guilty of that offense as well as obstruction of justice for allegedly providing false information. Wilson was released from prison on that charge on September 21, just days before Carter's murder.