Ocean County , NJ History

 Asbury Park Press 26 Nov 1993

Asbury Park Press 21 Apr 1993 A Superior Court jury began deliberations yesterday on whether a Toms River man purposely killed a Lakewood prostitute by hitting her with his car following a dispute about money. James A. Grove, 67, is charged with murder and aggravated assault in the 1990 death of Luceita Christina Streeter. The public defender for Grove told the jury during closing remarks in Toms River yesterday that the Union Street resident should be acquitted because the state's witnesses are not credible and there is no physical evidence linking him to the death of Streeter. The witness who testified she observed the murder, Diane Marshall, had changed her account several times, and her stories were inconsistent with the evidence, James Pinchak told the jury. Marshall testified she called the house Grove shared with a friend, Bruce Veeder, and asked for a ride from Lakewood so she could visit another friend of Veeder's who was in jail. After Grove got her in the early m...