Man mocks ex-fiancée about security before allegedly killing her

A New Jersey man is accused of violating a court order and killing his ex-fiancee, a mother of four, before taking his own life.

Relatives have named the victim as 41-year-old Tomeka Kamwani on a GoFundMe page. 

In the early hours of March 28, officers from the Woolwich Township Police Department responded to a residence in the 300 block of Broad Street due to a shooting incident. 

On arrival, they discovered Kamwani had been fatally shot and the suspect, who remains unnamed, dead from a seemingly self-inflicted gunshot.

NJ.com reported that the suspect entered Kamwani’s residence and shot her three times. Although two of her children were home at the time, they were uninjured, the outlet noted.

The suspect had reportedly been detained in February for striking her, but a judge subsequently released him on bond. 

Kamwani had secured a restraining order, which he allegedly disregarded, a week prior to his arrest for the assault, as per NJ.com. 

Despite the restraining order violation and his arrest, a judge reportedly rejected the prosecutor’s plea to remand him in custody until trial.

A prosecutor mentioned that he hit Kamwani, refused to vacate her premises, and threatened her life if she contacted the authorities.

"She stated that the defendant mocked her, suggesting she should install more locks, and displayed a card he utilised to access the home," the prosecutor noted, according to NJ.com’s recording of the bond hearing.

Ultimately, the judge reportedly permitted the suspect to post bond with the stipulation that he avoid contact with Kamwani.

"It's tragic he felt compelled to act in such a way. That's all that runs through my mind: Why would he do it? People break up," her aunt Barbera Brooks Faltz told local NBC affiliate WCAU. 

"We believed he was a decent person, and when this occurred, I was in disbelief, and I'm still struggling to accept it."