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THURSDAY 02.05.15

46%

MORE RESIDENTS
DISAPPROVE OF GOV

FEB. 2015

35%

38%
APR. 2012

41%

JAN. 2014

FEB. 2011

Christies poll numbers

continue to get worse.
STORY, A9

16%
3
FEB. 2013

15%
FEB. 2010

PERCENTAGE OF REGISTERED VOTERS WHO DISAPPROVE OF CHRISTIE'S JOB AS GOVERNOR/MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY POLL

Toms River Souths

Toms

River Souths

TYMERE BERRY
commits
to
commits

to
Monmouth
Monmouth
football.
football.
In Sports
In Sports

SIGNS OF HOPE
AT MATER DEI

Leave that
selfish
monster
where he is
Marshall sons plead
to keep dad behind bars

JASON TOWLEN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

A banner hanging at a Seraphs varsity basketball game solicits support for Mater Dei Prep on Wednesday, a day after it was
announced that the Middletown school would close at the end of the school year.

ERIK LARSEN @ERIK_LARSEN

TRENTON The eldest son of Robert and Maria Marshall was blunt when he addressed the state Parole
Board on Wednesday, to argue that his father should remain in prison for the murder of his mother for the rest
of his life.
Please, please leave that selfish monster right
where he is, pleaded Roby Marshall, who had traveled
to New Jersey from Southern California, to addressthe
board. For the second time in six months, Roby and his
brother Chris came to Trenton to implore that the board
not grant parole for their father, who was convicted in
the contract killing of their mother in 1986 Ocean
Countys most notorious murder chronicled in the bestselling book Blind Faith and the TV movie by the
same name.

Students, parents, alumni join forces

in battle to keep doors of school open

See MONSTER, Page A5

to the front of the gym stage, caused longtime Mater Dei boys basket-

INSIDE

ball coach Bob Klatt to mist up a little before his team faced rival Keans-

Roby Marshalls full statement to the Parole Board. A5

burg Wednesday evening.

It was
the heart
of my

JERRY CARINO @NJHOOPSHAVEN

existence during

he signs tell the story. They are plastered all over Memorial

my four happy

Hall, messages of both hope and desperation. Mater Dei Prep

years there.

is our home. Please help us save it. Save the Seraphs. Our

BRIAN WILLIAMS,
NBC ANCHOR AND MATER DEI ALUM

family. Our home. Our miracle. That last one, big and bold and affixed

See SERAPHS, Page A4

INSIDE
Anchor wants to help save
Seraphs. STORY, A4
Williams apologizes for
false Iraq story. STORY, A4

Tulane student from Tinton Falls killed in murder-suicide

DAN RADEL @DANIELRADELAPP
TINTON FALLS A 25-year old law student from Tinton Falls was shot and killed by her boyfriend in an apparent murder-suicide at Tulane Unversity in New Orleans, according to the university and city officials.
Sara LaMont, who was born in Long Branch, was a
second-year law student, as was her boyfriend, identified as Wajih Mazloum, 28, according to the officials.
The couple make the sixth and seventh Tulane University student deaths this school year.
It is with deep sadness and profound concern that I

write to you, Tulane University President Mike Fitts

addressed the Tulane University student body on Sunday.
Today we learned of the tragic deaths of Sara LaMont and Wajih Mazloum, two of our second-year law
students, in an apparent murder-suicide at an off-campus location.
According to a spokesman from the New Orleans Police Department, officers were called to the location
early Sunday morning in the 5500 block of Willow
Street.
Frank Robertson said at approximately 9:55 a.m., po-

lice responded to a report of a male and female found

unresponsive inside a home. When officers arrived, a
roommate advised that he walked inside of the house
and found them shot.
Robertson said detectives determined that the male
fatally shot his girlfriend and then fatally shot himself.
Detectives found a handgun next to the man.
The city coroner identified the two as Lamont and
Mazloum. Attempts to reach the Lamont family were
not successful. Mazloum worked for city government
See DEATH, Page A5

ANALYSIS FINDS INADEQUATE VACCINATION RATES ARE WIDESPREAD PAGE 1B

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STORY, A3

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