Wounded man found dead inside N.J. home, cops say

A man was found dead inside a home in South Jersey on Wednesday with multiple wounds to his body, officials said.

Police located the body of 42-year-old Shawn P. O’Neill at a home in Galloway, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release on Thursday.

Officers responded to the home at 2:49 p.m. on Wednesday after receiving a call reporting that there was a dead body inside, officials said.

Prosecutors did not specify the types of wounds that O’Neill had sustained. An autopsy is still pending.

The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office is asking anyone with information to call its headquarters at 609-909-7800 or submit a tip through Atlantic County Crime Stoppers.

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