One dead, one wounded after shooting in Morganville

MARLBORO – One man lay dead and another wounded after a shooting Monday at a Wilson Avenue home in Marlboro's Morganville section.

Police responded about 8 a.m. and found 59-year-old George Lutak dead, according to Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office spokesman Charlie Webster.

A 38-year-old man related to Lutak, whom authorities declined to name, suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound and was being treated at a local hospital.

Authorities are investigating how each man was shot; an autopsy for Lutak is scheduled for Tuesday.

The home on Wilson Avenue was blocked off with police tape. It is in a wooded, secluded neighborhood with winding streets and small one- and two-story homes, located off Route 79 in the township.

Several neighbors did not respond when reached at their homes Monday morning. Those who did said they were shocked by the news.

"This is a very bucolic community. Normally everyone knows each other," said Dennis Flanagan, 53. "It's not the kind of thing you would expect here."

Flanagan, who has lived in his Roosevelt Avenue home for nearly two decades, said this was first time he had heard of such an incident in the neighborhood.

It also was a first for Mary Ellen Richmond, a Morganville native who was visiting her brother from out of town.

"Holy cow," said Richmond, 54, when she learned of the investigation. "That's really disturbing."

Richmond had heard the sirens earlier in the morning but didn't know why the police rushed into the neighborhood.

"That's scary," she said. "This is a real calm area, very peaceful."