New Charges in Mystifying NJ Quadruple Family Murder Case
The then-16-year-old New Jersey boy who allegedly shot and killed his parents, sister and a family friend on New Year's Eve two years ago -- a heinous crime that has since befuddled investigators and the public -- has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder, prosecutors announced Friday.
Scott Kologi, now 18, will be charged as an adult in the Dec. 31, 2017 killings of his mother, father, sister and the family friend, whom Monmouth County prosecutors referred to as "grandmother" in a statement. The move comes after a judge granted prosecutors' motion earlier this week to move Kologi's case from family court so he could be prosecuted as an adult to the full extent of the law.
Kologi, of Long Branch, is expected to appear in court next week. If convicted of murder, he would face a minimum sentence of 30 years in state prison without parole for each of the four counts.
Kologi allegedly shot all four victims -- Steven and Linda Kologi, 44 and 42 respectively, 18-year-old Brittany Kologi, and 70-year-old Mary Schultz, who lived in the home, multiple times just before the Times Square ball dropped to ring in 2018. No possible motive has ever been revealed.
Prosecutors initially said Kologi allegedly went room to room to find his victims. A brother, grandfather and another family friend heard the shots and ran. They escaped unharmed.
Prosecutors have said the semi-automatic rifle used in the killings was legally owned by someone in the home, but have provided no other details.
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