Reward rises to $76,000 in Camden girl’s slaying

CAMDEN – Community leaders are opening their wallets in an intensifying effort to convince anyone with information about the deadly shooting of an 8-year-old Camden girl to tell police what they know.

The Camden County Police Department announced that the reward for tips leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever murdered Gabrielle “Gabby” Hill Carter has increased to $76,000.

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Gabby died Friday, two days after she was struck by gunfire about 8:30 p.m. on the 900 block of South 8th Street. She was playing on a sidewalk in her Bergen Square neighborhood when gunmen opened fire nearby and a stray bullet struck her, according to police and family members.

No one has been arrested in the shooting, the 31st homicide in Camden this year. Nearly all of the deaths were shootings.

The reward is being offered by the police department, county prosecutor’s office and the Citizens Crime Commission of the Delaware Valley.

Contributors include the Norcross family, Packetalk, the firm that provides Eye in the Sky cameras and other crimefighting technology used by city police; and Vahan and Danielle Gureghian, founders of CSMI LLC, which manages Camden Community Charter School. The Gureghians are paying for Gabby’s funeral expenses, too.

Gabby was killed two weeks before she would have begun third grade at the school.

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The amount of the award has grown repeatedly since it was announced, and most recently stood at $50,000. Police Chief Scott Thomson has described the search for the gunmen as “an all-hands-on-deck, line-in-the-sand moment.”

Police urge anyone with information about the slaying to call the Citizens Crime Commission at (215) 546-TIPS or (877) 345-TIPS. Tipsters may remain anonymous.