A Trenton man shot his girlfriend in the city early Sunday morning, then drove her to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he abandoned the vehicle with her dead body inside, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said Monday.

Lamont Truitt, 36, is charged with murder and related firearm charges for the death of Alyssia Murphy, 32. He surrendered to Trenton authorities late Sunday, the office said.

Truitt is also charged with attempted murder for wounding a friend of Murphy’s when he fired into the car in which they were sitting on Coolidge Avenue in the city’s West Ward.

Trenton police officers were alerted to the incident by their gunfire-detection system at 5:51 a.m. Soon after, they received a call reporting that another woman had been shot in the leg. That victim, a 25-year-old woman,

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