By: Najla Alexander
Union County Prosecutor officials announced today that a Roselle man who had been charged this past May with the murder of two members of a Roselle family, who were found deceased in their home in April, has been extradited to New Jersey from Maryland.
Prosecutor William A. Daniel said Everoy L. Morrison, 44, of Roselle, was charged on May 8th with two counts of first-degree murder and a number of weapons counts in the slayings of 45-year-old Keisha Morrison and her 9-year-old daughter Kelsey Morrison.
According to authorities, he was initially charged with the theft of a motor vehicle taken from the home after the homicides.
Just before noon on April 19th, Roselle Police Officers were called to a home on the 200 block of West 7th Avenue on the report of two missing persons, officials say.
A subsequent search of the home uncovered the victims’ bodies, according to Assistant Prosecutors Robert Grady and Bryan Tiscia, who are prosecuting the case.
While at the home, police determined that Keisha Morrison’s vehicle had been taken from the scene.
Authorities say investigators from the Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Task Force and the Roselle Police were quickly able to track the vehicle to Maryland, where the driver, Everoy Morrison, was stopped and arrested later on, the day of the homicides, for being in possession of the stolen car.
According to officials, he had been held in the Baltimore County Detention Center in Maryland before he arrived in Union County yesterday afternoon.
The investigation -- led by the Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Task Force and the Roselle Police with the assistance of the Union County Sheriff’s Office Crime Scene Unit and the Maryland State Police -- led to the identification of Morrison as the culprit and his eventual apprehension.
Morrison, the brother-in-law, and uncle of the respective victims, had been reportedly residing in the basement of the home at the time of the homicides, officials said.
Authorities say he is currently being housed in the Essex County Jail, awaiting his next court appearance.
“We are appreciative of the collaboration with the local and Maryland law enforcement agencies who assisted our office in locating, apprehending, and ultimately bringing Morrison back to New Jersey to face these charges,” Prosecutor Daniel said.
Convictions for crimes of this nature are punishable by terms of up to life in state prison.
These criminal charges are mere accusations. Every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.