MAN INDICTED IN ATTACK OF ESTRANGED WIFE
TRENTON
– A Ewing man was indicted today on charges that he shot and wounded his
estranged wife and shot at a co-worker of the woman’s last year in Princeton
Borough, Mercer County Prosecutor Daniel G. Giaquinto announced.
Errol
Thompson (DOB 10/23/49), whose last known address is the 1300 block of Country
Lane in Ewing, has remained at large since the Oct. 18 incident. He is
considered armed and dangerous and anyone with information regarding his
whereabouts should immediately call police, Giaquinto said.
The
incident occurred Oct. 18, 1999 at about 7 a.m. in the parking lot of the
Merwick Subacute Care and Rehabilitation Unit of The Medical Center at
Princeton. Thompson’s estranged wife, Dorothy Thompson, was shot three times
but recovered. The victim had driven to work with a co-worker, Shemond
Jefferson, who was allegedly also shot at by Errol Thompson but was not wounded,
Giaquinto said.
Thompson
was charged in a 19-count indictment today representing the attacks to both
victims. Charges include two counts of attempted murder and aggravated assault,
and weapons offenses. If convicted, he could be sentenced to at least 40 years
in prison.
At
the time of the shooting, Thompson had been out on bail awaiting sentencing on
third-degree charges of terroristic threats stemming from a 1998 incident in
which he threatened to kill his wife.
Assistant
Prosecutor Stephanie Katz presented the case to grand jury and will try the
case.
Despite having been indicted, every defendant is presumed innocent
unless found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.