Ex-con Shamar Leggette was the subject of a manhunt following the infamous 2022 gunpoint robbery of “Bling Bishop” Lamor Whitehead of Paramus during a live-streamed church service in Brooklyn.
Leggette, 41, also shot a man in Providence, Rhode Island last September, authorities there said.
Members of the U.S. States Marshals Service NY/NJ Regional Task Force, assisting the New York office of the ATF, surprised Leggette at the MHO Inn and Suites on the highway’s southbound side in the Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick shortly before 3 p.m. Jan. 24.
A woman surrendered before the 5-foot-6-inch, 140-pound Leggette suddenly came out firing, according to federal sources.
Task force members shot back, they said.
Leggette was pronounced dead at 4:29 p.m.
Two guns were recovered near him, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said. No officers were injured, he added.
Platkin’s office is reviewing the circumstances — apparently because South Brunswick police were involved.
Leggette was wanted for robbing Whitehead, who became known for his Rolls Royce, bling and decade-long friendship with New York City Mayor Eric Adams.