MURDER-SUICIDE IN CLAYTON (Gloucester County, NJ)
Press Release from GCPO 5/8/2024 Murder-Suicide: 357 N. Broad St., Clayton, NJ
On Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at approximately 7:00pm, the Clayton Police Department was dispatched to
the Academy Arms Apartment Complex, 357 N. Broad Street, Clayton, New Jersey regarding reports of a
shooting. Responding officers discovered the bodies of Nina D. Sinclair-Green, 43, and Anthony J.
Williams, 45, deceased inside an apartment leased by Williams. Sinclair-Green and Williams had been
residing there together.
Investigation by the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes and Crime Scene Units, in
close partnership with the Clayton Police Department, determined that Williams shot and killed Sinclair Green inside the apartment as she was there to pack her belongings and move out. After Sinclair-Green was shot, Williams discharged rounds from a semi-automatic handgun through the open front doorway, striking a vehicle in the adjacent parking lot occupied by Sinclair-Green’s family members, who were there to help Sinclair-Green pack and remove her belongings. No injuries were sustained by occupants of the vehicle.
After discharging those rounds, Williams then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide while still
inside the apartment. Autopsies conducted on Wednesday 5/8 by the Gloucester County Medical Examiner determined that Sinclair-Green died from multiple gunshot wounds, and her manner of death was homicide. Williams died from a single gunshot wound to the head, and the manner of death was suicide.
Anyone with additional information is encouraged to contact Detective Allen Williams of the Gloucester
County Prosecutor’s Office, at 856-384-5622, or Detective Edward Hyder, of the Clayton Police
Department, 856-881-2301. Information can also be e-mailed to the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office at tips@co.gloucester.nj.us.