BY KATHY CHANG
Staff Writer
EDISON — Police are searching for a gunman who is wanted in connection with the shooting of a 29-year-old man that occurred early this morning in the parking lot outside a Truman Drive apartment complex.
The victim, a tenant at the Kilmer Homes Apartments, was shot once in the chest, according to Police Lt. Robert Dudash.
He underwent emergency surgery to remove the bullet earlier today at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. He is listed in stable condition in the hospital’s intensive care unit, police said.
Officers were dispatched to the apartment complex at 117 Truman Drive just before 12:45 a.m. on June 21 after the victim’s wife had dialed 911. She said that she was awakened by her injured husband’s calls for help outside their apartment’s front door, Dudash said.
The woman told police that she found her husband bleeding from a gunshot wound before he collapsed onto their apartment floor, where he was found by responding Police Officers Michael Haley, Daniel Bradley, Brian Freund, Timothy Hutson, Matthew Mieczkowski and Police Lt. Jason Gerba.
Officers searched the apartment building, its grounds and streets in the area for the gunman but they could not locate the suspect. Detective William Colletto reported finding several shell casings in the street outside and bullet holes in the victim’s gray Acura TL that was parked in a lot outside his building, Dudash said.
Dudash said that authorities would not release a description of the gunman or any other details about the incident at this time.
The Edison Police Department is working with the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office to find the gunman involved in the shooting. Anyone with information, is asked to contact Edison Detective Michael Michalski at 732-248-7525.