ROSELLE, N.J. (1010 WINS) — A New Jersey man was charged this week for brutally killing his sister-in-law and 9-year-old niece with an axe last month inside their Roselle home.
Everoy L. Morrison, 44, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, motor vehicle theft, and several weapons crimes after Kiesha Morrison, 45, and her 9-year-old daughter, Kelsey, were found dead, the Union County Prosecutor's Office said Monday.
The mother and daughter were found underneath a mattress in the daughter's bedroom after police were called to a home on West 7th Avenue on April 18 after the two were reported missing, prosecutors said.
Following the killings, Atasha Scott, the sister of Keisha Morrison’s husband, Gary Morrison, told NBC New York that the murder weapon was an axe.
While at the home, police determined that Keisha Morrison’s brand-new BMW had been taken from the scene.
Investigators from the Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Task Force and the Roselle Police Department were able to track the car to Maryland, where the driver, Everoy Morrison, was pulled over and arrested for being in possession of the stolen car.
Everoy Morrison was identified as the suspect in the case after an investigation by Roselle police, the prosecutor's office task force, the Union County Sheriff's Office's Crime Scene Unit and the Maryland State Police.
The killings were reportedly the result of a domestic dispute at the home. Everoy Morrison was allegedly living in the home's basement at the time of the murders, according to prosecutors.
Scott told the station that police said the killer "wrapped them up in bedsheets, stuffed them under my niece's bed."
She added that Gary found the axe stuffed between two mattresses in his bedroom.
"On the floor, it seemed like somebody was trying to clean up blood like it was swirled around," Scott told the NBC New York.
Everoy Morrison is being held in the Baltimore County Detention Center awaiting extradition proceedings, prosecutors said.
"We are appreciative of the collaboration with the local and Maryland law enforcement agencies who assisted our Office in locating and apprehending the suspect," said Union County Prosecutor William A. Daniel in a statement. "And we hope that this arrest can bring some small measure of comfort to all those grieving Keisha and Kelsey."
An investigation is ongoing and active, and anyone with information is urged to contact Prosecutor’s Office Detective Sergeant Lamar Hartsfield at (908) 451-1873, Detective Wojciech Dziadosz at (908) 347-2212 or Roselle Police Department Detective Luis Vega at (732) 956-1677.
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