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File photo of a New Jersey State Police vehicle outside of a Trenton crime scene.

(Christina Izzo/The Times of Tren)

TABERNACLE -- Eight months after a Trenton woman's bullet-ridden corpse was discovered in woods in Tabernacle, police have named the victim's Narcotics Anonymous sponsor as a suspect in her death.

Loraine Hawkins, 47, of Trenton, is the second suspect charged in the death of 47-year-old city resident Lisa Armstrong, State Police said Monday.

Police previously arrested Terrance Patterson, 37, of Trenton, four days after the Oct. 8 discovery of Armstrong’s body in the woods along Route 206. Armstrong died from multiple gunshot wounds to the head, police said.

The investigation suggested Patterson had a co-conspirator and that they also robbed Armstrong.

State Police arrested Hawkins Friday at her Trenton home, charging her with felony murder, robbery and kidnapping.

She is being held at the Burlington County Jail in lieu of $500,000 full-cash bail.

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