Friends, neighbors demand answers after mother, daughter found shot to death in Burlington County home

Neighbors, friends shocked after mother, daughter found shot

The peace and quiet of a Burlington County neighborhood has been shattered by the shooting deaths of a mother and daughter, and friends and neighbors want justice.

WILLINGBORO, NJ – A Burlington County family is demanding justice after a mother and daughter were shot and killed in their Willingboro home Wednesday morning. Police say the initial call was for a burglary in progress. But when they arrived at the house, they found the two women dead.

The suspect or suspects are still at large.

“We’re barely sleeping. We can’t sleep because we just don’t know,” friend and neighbor Charlee Harris said of the disturbing events.

Next-door neighbor Glenda Sprauve added: “I’m still in awe. I still can’t sleep. I can’t sleep.”

The shock and sadness of the Wednesday morning slayings of mother Marisol Nunez, 54, and her 33-year-old daughter, Catherine Nunez, isn’t getting close to residents of the Willingboro neighborhood.

“It feels like a big loss for us,” Harris noted.

“But me, who lives next door, I don’t feel that – I’m still surprised,” Sprauve said.

It is both the loss of dear neighbors, beautiful inside and out, and the loss of the sense of security in their neighborhood.

Sprauve remarked, “I know one thing. When I’m in my room, I’m still surprised because I don’t know what’s going on. What can happen.”

“We have a lot of seniors on our block. A lot of them are a little paranoid and scared because they’re older,” Harris explained.

Both Marisol and Catherine were found shot upstairs, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said, after one or more intruders entered through a now-boarded-up first-floor window, and said it was no accident and that they, “… don’t believe others. the residents of the neighborhood are in danger”.

But, this did not reassure the closest neighbors.

“I didn’t hear anything. I didn’t fool you, and that really bothers me because I was so close. I’m right next to them,” Sprauve said.

What can help calm nerves and support the surviving family is a planned meeting on Saturday evening.

“Tomorrow, we want to get everyone at 6:00 p.m. We will say a prayer. We’re going to have a candlelight vigil for her and her mom,” Harris said.