Two teenage girls riding e-bikes in New Jersey were allegedly struck and killed by a 17-year-old who was stalking one of them, with family members and residents accusing him of "plotting this attack" and being "parked outside her house for three months now."

Cops say the suspect, whose name is being withheld, mowed the pair down in a Jeep Compass on Monday night in Cranford before fleeing the scene. He is related to a police chief in the neighboring town of Westfield.

"This was not an e-bike accident, and it was not a hit-and-run. This was murder in the first degree," said the families of Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas in a statement to local Fox affiliate WNYW on Wednesday.

The families described the suspect as a "a coward of a man, who had been plotting this attack against Maria for

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