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Friends and neighbors demand answers after mother and daughter found shot to death in Burlington County home
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Friends and neighbors demand answers after mother and daughter found shot to death in Burlington County home

A Burlington County family is demanding justice after a mother and daughter were shot and killed inside their Willingboro home Wednesday morning. Police say the initial call was for a robbery in progress. But, when they arrived at the house, they found the two women dead.

The suspect or suspects remain at large.

“We barely sleep. We can’t sleep because we just don’t know,” friend and neighbor Charlee Harris said of the disturbing events.

Next door neighbor Glenda Sprauve added: “I’m still in shock. I still can’t sleep. I can’t sleep.”

The shock and sadness following the Wednesday morning murders of her mother, Marisol Nunez, 54, and her 33-year-old daughter, Catherine Nunez, are nowhere near affecting residents of the Willingboro neighborhood.

“It’s a big loss for us,” Harris said.

“But I, who live next door, don’t feel like it, I’m still surprised,” said Sprauve.

It is both the loss of your beloved, beautiful neighbors inside and out and the loss of your sense of security in your neighborhood.

Sprauve commented: “I know one thing. When I’m in my room, I still get startled because I don’t know what’s happening. What can happen.”

“We have a lot of seniors on our block. A lot of them are a little paranoid and scared because they’re older,” Harris explained.

Both Marisol and Catherine were found shot to death upstairs, the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office said after one or more intruders broke in through a now-boarded-up first-floor window, which they said was not random and that “…they don’t believe in others.” Neighborhood residents are in danger.”

But that has not calmed the closest neighbors.

“I didn’t hear anything. I’m not kidding, and that’s what really bothers me because it was so close. I’m right next to them,” Sprauve said.

What may help calm nerves and support the surviving family is a planned gathering on Saturday night.

“Tomorrow we want everyone out at 6 p.m. We’ll have a prayer. We’ll have a candlelight vigil for her and her mother,” Harris said.