Texas man arrested for wife's murder at Days Inn in South Jersey: officials

A woman is dead, and her husband arrested, after a shooting erupted at hotel in a Camden County town early Wednesday morning.

Officers responded to reports of a shooting and carjacking at the Days Inn Hotel in Runnemede just before 2 a.m.

The carjacking victim told police that a man fired a handgun at him before fleeing in his car.

Police then searched the hotel, and found a woman suffering from gunshot wounds.

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She was identified as 30-year-old Ivy Morris, and pronounced dead at the scene.

Later that day, her husband Steven Burgess was arrested by U.S. Marshals and Philadelphia SWAT teams.

The 38-year-old Texas man is charged with first-degree murder, and is currently in custody in Philadelphia pending extradition to New Jersey. 

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