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TRENTON City resident Cheryl Jones encountered the gunman knocking on her front door, and officers at Trenton Police headquarters heard the fatal gunshots.

Clent Morris, 90, has been charged with first-degree murder, second-degree burglary and weapons offenses on allegations he shot and killed his neighbor on Sheridan Avenue this past weekend.

New details in the grisly homicide emerged in court documents obtained by The Trentonian.

Jones, 65, and her boyfriend identified by the initials EG were watching TV inside their Sheridan Avenue household when someone knocked on the front door about 6:20 p.m. Saturday, according to the affidavit of probable cause.

Jones went downstairs to answer the door and said, I told you to stay off my porch, Clent.

Morris, who has long accused Jones boyfriend of breaking into his nearby house and stealing his money and food, tussled with Jones on the front porch before shooting her multiple times at close range, according to witness statements provided to the Mercer County Homicide Task Force.

Ive been shot, Jones said, according to witness statements. He shot me.

Trenton Police Department officers heard the shooting occur, for Sheridan Avenue is an adjacent street to TPDs North Clinton Avenue headquarters, Detective Jessica Senese of the homicide task force wrote in the probable cause statement.

Detectives Jeffrey Vetter, Michael Gettler and Gregory Woods immediately responded to the scene and found Jones lying on the front porch suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, according to information released by Trenton Police and the Mercer County Prosecutors Office.

The officers performed CPR on Jones, who had succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Additional officers arrived on the scene, entered the house and found Morris ascending the stairs to the second floor of the Sheridan Avenue residence, according to Seneses probable cause statement supporting the heavy charges against the 90-year-old city man.

The officers, believing Morris was armed and dangerous, told him to drop the weapon and to surrender.

Morris put his hands up and walked down the stairs, according to court documents, which indicate Morris did not have a gun on him at that time.

Officers, however, found a revolver on the second floor near the steps and a gun holster on the front porch, court documents show.

Police searched the entire house and also found the victims boyfriend, EG, on the second floor.

EG, in a statement to police, said he had heard the gunshots that killed his girlfriend and saw Morris walking back downstairs when the cops told Morris to put your hands up.

Morris accuses EG of burglary and theft, but EG said he had never been inside the elderly mans Sheridan Avenue household, according to EGs statement to police as detailed in court documents.

Based upon their crime scene investigation, police charged Morris with the murder of his Sheridan Avenue neighbor.

Instead of hauling him into TPD headquarters and taking his mugshot Saturday night, police transported Morris to a local hospital to treat his eye injuries. He was suffering from a wound to his eye at the time of the homicide, police said.

Police officially filed murder charges against Morris about 11:50 p.m. Saturday, records show.

In New Jerseys criminal justice system, a general presumption of pre-trial detention exists for any defendant charged with murder.

The Mercer County Prosecutors Office says Morris has been hospitalized since his arrest but has not said whether it will seek to place the elderly man in jail without bail pending trial.

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