New Jersey authorities have interviewed undercover police detective who shot and killed Suwanee bank executive who was visiting his Newark high school reunion, the events 48-year-old father of four children helped to organize.Catherine Carter, spokesman for the Essex County prosecutor, said the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday that authorities expect to release later in the day for more information about what happened on Friday evening in the Department of Brook Park, area authorities said was known as a meeting place for sexual activity.
Murder investigators questioned a detective Monday evening. Carter said that she expected the information collected will be released.
DeFarra Gamon, president and CEO of Credit Union Atlanta, was shot once in the chest about 6 pm Friday, he died three hours later in hospital Newark.
Gamon was unarmed, but police said, but he "tussled" with the detective, who tried to arrest him.
No other details about the shooting were released.
The name of a detective involved has not been released, but the Star-Ledger of Newark said that he was 29 years old and has been on the force for 8 years. The officer was not injured, but the newspaper reported that the detective was drugs after the shooting. Essex County Sheriff detective told the newspaper "very traumatized" by what had happened.
The shooting Friday was the fifth police-related shooting in Newark last month. There have been nine this year, and 6 of them fatal, according to the Star-Ledger.
Gamon reason for being in the park are not known. It is located near the hotel where the Montclair School class of 1980 graduates were meeting.
Gamon sister told the newspaper the family is going to Newark, New Jersey, hoping to find out what happened. "We would like to get answers," Kelly Gamon Armstrong said Star-Ledger.
