2 dead in murder-suicide at apartment complex in Clayton, police say; Victim's son speaks out

CLAYTON, NJ - Two people are dead after police say a murder-suicide occurred at an apartment complex in Clayton Tuesday night. 

At around 7 p.m. Tuesday night, police were dispatched to Academy Arms Apartment Complex on the 300 block of North Broad Street in Clayton, New Jersey regarding reports of a shooting. 

SKYFOX was over the scene, which showed several emotional people and multiple law enforcement units from different jurisdictions gathered near the apartment where the incident reportedly occurred.

Upon arrival, officers discovered the bodies of Nina D. Sinclair-Green, 43, and Anthony J. Williams, 45, inside an apartment leased by Williams. The two had been residing there together.

After further investigation, officials determined that Williams shot and killed Sinclair-Green inside the apartment as she was there to pack her belongings and move out. 

They say right after Sinclair-Green was shot, Williams fired shots from a semi-automatic handgun through the open front doorway, striking a vehicle in the adjacent parking lot occupied by the victim’s family members, who were there to help her pack and remove her belongings. The family members inside the vehicle did not sustain any injuries. 

After Williams fired off the rounds of gunshots, Williams then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide while still inside the apartment, police say. 

Autopsies conducted Wednesday by the Gloucester County Medical Examiner determined that Sinclair-Green died from multiple gunshot wounds and deemed her manner of death as homicide. They also found that Williams died from a single gunshot wound to the head, and ruled his manner of death as suicide.

FOX 29’s Steve Keeley spoke with the victim’s 20-year-old son, Damien Green, and the victim’s mother Tuesday night. 

Both the victim’s mom and son say she had been fighting Lymphoma and beat the cancer after a 10-year struggle and, unfortunately, she was just recently diagnosed with Lupus. 

Anyone with additional information is encouraged to contact Detective Allen Williams of the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office, at 856-384-5622, or Detective Edward Hyder, of the Clayton Police Department, 856-881-2301.

Information can also be e-mailed to the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office at tips@co.gloucester.nj.us