Prosecutor: Authorities on the Hunt for 27-Year-Old’s Killer

Authorities are looking for the killer of a 27-year-old Asbury Park man who was found dead inside a vehicle in the 100 block of Prospect Avenue Wednesday night, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni said.

Asbury Park Police responded to the area along Prospect Avenue to find Denzel Morgan-Hicks deceased and seated in the driver’s seat of a 2017 Ford Expedition.

The deceased was taken to the Middlesex County Regional Medical Examiner’s Office where an autopsy will be completed to determine the cause and manner of death.

Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Detective John Leibfried of the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office at 1-800-533-7443 or Detective Dillan Gourley of the Asbury Park Police Department at 732-775-2936.

— Press release from the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office