Two REPUBLICAN New Jersey council members have been fatally shot one week apart

A New Jersey borough council member was fatally shot in the parking lot outside his place of work on Wednesday, authorities said – one week after another borough council member in the state was shot and killed in her car.

Russell D. Heller, a Republican Councilman for Milford Borough in Hunterdon County, was shot the parking lot of the energy company where he worked in Franklin Township, investigators said. He was 51 years old.

Heller's death comes one week after the fatal shooting of Eunice Dwumfour, a Republican Councilwoman for Sayreville borough in Middlesex County.

According to Somerset County Prosecutor John McDonald, Heller was approached outside his vehicle at about 7 a.m. Wednesday by Gary T. Curtis, a 58-year-old former employee of the energy company, Public Service Enterprise group. Curtis then shot Heller, authorities said.

The prosecutor's office confirmed that Curtis was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a Bridgewater parking lot.

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