An Honor Student Died in Car Crash After Being Shot. Now, 3 Juveniles Are Charged With His Murder

A 17-year-old grant student was killed aft authorities opportunity he was changeable and subsequently collapsed his car.

Three juveniles from Millville, N.J., were charged pinch homicide, conspiracy, robbery and weapons offenses successful relationship pinch nan May 17 incident, nan Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office says.

Prosecutors opportunity surveillance revealed that 2 of nan suspects, who were not named, had an brushwood pinch nan victim, who was changeable once, earlier returning to nan location of nan 3rd suspect.

"Investigators learned that 1 of nan juveniles had been successful interaction pinch nan unfortunate anterior to his decease and directed nan unfortunate to meet nan different 2 juveniles successful Millville," prosecutors say.

Though nan prosecutor's agency did not sanction nan victim, he was identified arsenic Lucas DeGeorge successful a GoFundMe started by his family.

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"On May 17, 2025 our beloved boy Lucas was tragically taken from america successful a senseless enactment of weapon violence," his parents wrote. "No words tin genuinely definitive nan symptom and heartbreak our family is enduring correct now."

His parents opportunity that he was a inferior astatine Buena Regional High School, wherever he was an grant student.

"An grant student enrolled successful precocious classes, he was some intelligent and driven," his obituary reads. "He worked astatine ACME successful Mays Landing and, successful galore capacities, helped his dada flip houses pinch nan Veteran Home Project."