On Sunday (2/15) the Lakewood Police Department received a 911 call of a woman found lying unresponsive near a Townhouse Unit at 525 Davids Court. Upon their arrival they found a female, later identified as Olivia Benito, 66, of Lakewood, face down on the ground beside a neighbor’s car. EMS was immediately contacted and the victim was pronounced dead at 7:26 am.
Lakewood PD contacted Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes and Ocean County Sheriff’s Department CSI to assist in the investigation. The investigating agencies found that the decedent was last seen alive by her neighbor at midnight. The neighbor and victim had gone together to a benefit on Saturday (2/14) at the Lakewood Elks. According to the neighbor, they left the benefit and first stopped at the neighbor’s house for a short time. The neighbor stated further that Benito departed her townhouse around Midnight to walk home to her townhome approximately two doors down.
This morning at approximately 7:04 am the neighbor went out to clean off her car and found the decedent face down in the snow. She attempted aid, dialed 911 and alerted the victim’s husband. The husband was under the assumption that his wife had decided to sleep at the neighbor’s home.
The preliminary investigation found no outward signs of trauma or foul play at this time. The Lakewood Police Department, OCPO and OC Sheriff’s CSI await the results of an autopsy by the OC Medical Examiner’s Office before making a final determination in the investigation.
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