GUILTY NJ - Jonelle Melton, 33, murdered in her Neptune City home, 14 Sept 2009

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Authorities urging community to send Crime Stoppers tips on unsolved homicides

NEPTUNE CITY – Authorities are asking the public for information to help solve the homicide of a Red Bank middle school teacher that happened four years ago.
Crime Stoppers is offering up to $5,000 cash for tips leading to an arrest in the case.
Jonelle Melton, 33, was killed September 14, 2009 and was found at around 9 a.m. by a family member in her Brighton Arms apartment. An autopsy determined that she was violently assaulted.
As a seventh grade teacher at Red Bank Middle School, she taught social studies, was a yearbook advisor, cheerleading and dance coach, and part of the School Improvement Team.


http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ss...rime_stoppers_tips_on_unsolved_homicides.html
 
They give you virtually no info on the homicide
 
Authorities have not disclosed a cause of death but initially ruled Melton's death "suspicious."

According to Monmouth County Administrative Assistant Prosecutor Mike Cunningham, the prosecutor's office is awaiting the determination of the medical examiner before commenting further.

A post-mortem examination was scheduled for Tuesday but a determination of a cause of death has yet to be announced.

Very few details surrounding Melton's death have been released by the prosecutor's office.


http://www.trtnj.com/issues/090918/news1.php
 
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http://www.redbankgreen.com/2009/10/slain-teachers-ex-speaks.html

A little more than a month after his estranged wife and co-worker Jonelle Melton was found murdered in her Neptune City apartment, Red Bank Middle School teacher Michael Melton has given the Asbury Park Press an interview in which he confronts a rumor that he is a suspect. “I’m not capable of anything like that. I loved her to death,” Melton told the Press...

The prosecutor, in fact, as has said close to nothing about the case other than that it’s being treated as a homicide. The office has not confirmed speculation that Jonelle Melton was found beaten and shot to death...

The terms of their divorce, set to be finalized in Superior Court on Oct. 6, are noteworthy only in terms of their simplicity. He filed; she never contested. Neither hired a lawyer and there were no assets to be divided, no children to fight over.
 
http://www.app.com/story/news/crime.../murder-suspect-mouths-kisses-court/79083110/

Jerry J. Spraulding, 38, appeared before Superior Court Judge Honora O’Brien Kilgallen to be advised of the litany of charges he faces in connection with the murder of Jonelle Melton...

The others charged in Jonelle Melton’s murder are James Fair, 27, Ebenezer Byrd, 35, and Gregory Jean-Baptiste, 26, all Asbury Park residents with criminal records...

Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher Gramiccioni said the trio had planned to burglarize another unit in the Brighton Arms apartment complex where Melton lived, but they broke into the wrong unit. Gramiccioni said Melton was a victim of mistaken identity, he said. When the three men encountered her and realized they were in the wrong apartment, they brutally murdered her...
 
FREEHOLD – Almost 10 years ago, thugs set out to burglarize a drug dealer’s home, but things went awry when they went to a beloved schoolteacher’s apartment by mistake.

When the burglars realized their error, they killed 33-year-old Jonelle Melton, a social studies teacher at Red Bank Middle School, authorities allege.

Now, three men accused of killing her are poised to stand trial on felony murder and other charges.

Jury selection is slated to begin Tuesday for the trial of Ebenezer Byrd, 39, and Gregory Jean-Baptiste, 30, both of Asbury Park, and Jerry J. Spaulding, 41, of Keyport.

Trial to start for three career criminals charged in Red Bank teacher's mistaken-identity murder
 
Such a waste of lives- one productive, the others not so much. I hope Ms. Melton gets justice, at least. I wish they had just left instead of killing her.
 

Fair pleaded guilty in 2017 to a downgraded charge of conspiracy to commit armed burglary. He said that his involvement was nothing more than passing along information about the drug dealer who kept cash in his freezer. Fair a leader of the Bloods street gang who was convicted of 79 crimes at a 2017 trial in an extensive gang case known as "Operation Dead End,'' was sentenced to 82 years in prison for those crimes and his role in the deadly Melton burglary.

Byrd, Jean-Baptiste and Spaulding have pleaded not guilty to all of the charges against them in the Melton murder and have been on trial before Superior Court Judge Joseph W. Oxley since Jan. 17.
 
Red Bank teacher murder: Three men guilty on all charges in murder of Jonelle Melton

The judge ordered Byrd, whose life of crime began at age 10, to serve 83 years and nine months of the sentence before he can be considered for release on parole.

In all, the three men, Byrd, Jerry Spaulding and Gregory Jean-Baptiste, were given hundreds of years in prison for what they did to Melton, Oxley said. The victim was stabbed five times, shot twice and beaten so badly that her jaw was broken in two places, the judge said.

Red Bank teacher murder: Jonelle Melton's killers will die in prison, judge says
 

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