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TRAUMA LINGERS
ONE YEAR LATER: THE SEIDLE KILLING

ON SEWELL AVENUE
SUNDAY 06.12.16

(ABOVE) PHOTO COURTESY OF SHENISE BELLAMY

Philip Seidle, with his gun to his head, in a standoff with police on June 16, 2015, on Sewell Avenue in Asbury
Park. A resident, Shenise Bellamy, took the photo from an upstairs bedroom. Tamara Wilson-Seidle, top, had
divorced Philip Seidle 20 days before she was shot to death.

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Community still struggles to cope on Asbury

street forever changed by brutal shooting
Sewell Avenue
residents Lakayla
Crumes, left, and
Shenise Bellamy still
struggle with
Wilson-Seidles death.

SHANNON MULLEN @MULLENAPP

ASBURY PARK - For months, Lakayla

Crumes tossed in her bed, counting gunshots instead of sheep.
It was the same for her neighbor, Shenise
Bellamy, 24. The memories of what happened
June 16, 2015 the day Neptune Police Sgt. Philip Seidle gunned down his ex-wife, Tamara Wilson-Seidle, 51, just feet from Bellamys front
porch replayed in her mind in a continuous
loop, keeping her awake until 3, 4 oclock in the
morning, she said.
Its like when I close my eyes, I see her
face, Bellamy explained.
A health aide at a local nursing home, she
eventually asked to be switched to the overnight shift. If she couldnt sleep, she reasoned,

she might as well work.

It was months before she could bear to sit on
her front porch again, she said.
Nearly a year has passed since Seidle, 52,
turned an ordinary, drowsy morning on Sewell
Avenue into a recurring nightmare.
But to hear Crumes and Bellamy talk about
that day, its almost as if Seidle a bald, sharpSee STREET, Page 8A

When will the public finally know what

happened in the tragic Seidle shooting?
KEN SERRANO @KENSERRANOAPP

ASBURY PARK - Nearly a year after the

street-side killing of Tamara Wilson-Seidle by
her ex-husband and Neptune police officer, the
public remains in the dark about how a cop with
a violent temper and a history of domestic violence calls to his home managed to have his service weapon returned to him following a suspension.
On June 16, 2015, the off-duty Sgt. Philip Seidle rammed his ex-wifes car with his Honda Pilot, jumped out and fired a volley into the driverside window from his .40-caliber police-issued
Glock handgun. As police surrounded him, they
watched as he first put the gun to his head, then -

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l Our view: Seidle report must be released, editorial, Page 4AA.

l Online: Visit APP.com for more on the Seidle case.

All this and more inside! 2A

Maddie McMahon, left, helped lead Middletown South to North 2,

Group III championship in softball this spring. Join McMahon and Giants
quarterback Eli Manning on Monday at the Jersey Shore Sports Awards.

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ASBURY PARK PRESS FILE PHOTO

Neptune police Sgt. Philip Seidle is taken into custody

on June 16, 2015.

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