Eatontown man arrested for attempted murder

BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer

BY KAREN E. BOWES
Staff Writer

MIDDLETOWN — A 21-year-old Eatontown man was arrested on three counts of attempted murder on April 19 in Asbury Park.

Three days earlier, Terry Haupt became enraged when, according to police, he saw his girlfriend speaking with another man at the Elks Club in Red Bank.

Haupt allegedly assaulted his girlfriend, then left the premises, called her on her cell phone and told her “he was going to shoot up the house,” according to the arresting officer, Detective Steve Dollinger of the Middletown Police Department.

Haupt drove to Bray Avenue in Middletown, where he allegedly fired five shots into his cousin’s home and one shot into an SUV parked just outside the home.

Inside the vehicle were his girlfriend, Haupt’s male cousin and a female friend sitting in the back seat.

No one was injured, according to Dollinger.

“He missed the back-seat passenger by about a foot,” said Dollinger.

Haupt was arrested at a friend’s house on Monroe Avenue in Asbury Park at approximately 2:30 p.m. on April 19. Detectives were notified of his presence there by tips stemming from their investigation.

Haupt was charged with three counts of attempted murder, unlawful possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm for an unlawful purpose, a certain person not to possess a firearm, simple assault and terroristic threats.

He is being held at Monmouth County jail on $502,500 bail with no 10 percent option.

Detectives Rich Deickmann and Barry Grimm assisted in the arrest, as well as the Asbury Park Police Department and Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office.