A New Jersey man fatally shot his girlfriend in her car, then drove the vehicle to Pennsylvania and dumped her body there, authorities said Monday.

Lamont Truitt, a 36-year-old Trenton resident, was charged with first-degree murder and several other crimes in the killing of 32-year-old Alyssia Murphy on Sunday morning, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release.

Murphy and a 25-year-old friend were sitting in a car in Trenton when Truitt began arguing with Murphy while standing outside the vehicle, investigators said. Truitt then pulled a handgun and allegedly fired several shots at the car, killing Murphy and wounding her friend.

The 25-year-old friend escaped the vehicle and called 911, while Truitt hopped in and drove the car from Trenton across the Delaware

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