Murder Paxil 16/11/2004 New Jersey Blind Man Kills Ex-Girlfriend
 
 Summary:<br><br><!--StartFragment -->Paragraph 4 reads: &quot;Cameron was being held Monday evening under police guard at the Englewood hospital after <strong>ingesting prescription medication - including a large amount of the antidepressant Paxil </strong>- before police arrived, Molinelli said. He was in fair condition and expected to survive.&quot;<br /><br />Paragraph 11 reads: &quot;&#39;It doesn&#39;t make any sense to me,&#39; said Roy Harris, a Cameron cousin. &#39;Why do you kill somebody over a $25 phone bill? <strong>He wasn&#39;t that type of guy, wasn&#39;t a street guy.&#39;</strong>&quot;<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzJmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2NjEzNzM4JnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mw">http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzJmZnYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2NjEzNzM4JnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mw</a>==<br /><br /><div align="center">By TOM TRONCONE<br />STAFF WRITER <br /><br />A homebound blind man killed his former girlfriend Monday afternoon in Englewood during a quarrel about an unpaid phone bill, authorities said.<br /><br /></div>Police charged Robert Cameron, 31, of Rock Creek Terrace with first-degree murder in the death of Coleen Garris, who was shot numerous times in the body and pronounced dead shortly after 4 p.m. at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.<br /><br />Details about the shooting were scant Monday night as police waited for a search warrant needed to re-enter Cameron&#39;s apartment, where the gun used in the slaying remained, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli said. <br /><br />Cameron was being held Monday evening under police guard at the Englewood hospital after ingesting prescription medication - including a large amount of the antidepressant Paxil - before police arrived, Molinelli said. He was in fair condition and expected to survive.<br /><br />Police ruled out a suicide attempt, the prosecutor said.<br /><br />&quot;Only because he had the gun,&quot; Molinelli said. &quot;He had the means to take his own life if he wanted to.&quot;<br /><br />Both the slaying and Cameron&#39;s arrest were greeted with disbelief in the tightknit Rock Creek public housing development. A group of his family members, as well as numerous curious neighbors, sat in doorways or stood in small clusters along the development&#39;s narrow, winding streets.<br /><br />Molinelli said a Cameron cousin called police about the shooting at 3:17 p.m. The prosecutor estimated the slaying occurred &quot;sometime between 2 and 3 p.m.&quot;<br /><br />Police said they didn&#39;t know why Garris, a 31-year-old single mother who also lived in the complex, was inside Cameron&#39;s apartment. The ground-floor apartment is near the center of the large town-house development on a gently sloping, wooded hill near Route 4.<br /><br />Police taped off a grassy area around the apartment and spent part of the early evening Monday walking door-to-door, asking neighbors if they had heard gunfire. Word quickly spread, and soon several of Cameron&#39;s relatives arrived to seek information about the case.<br /><br />&quot;It doesn&#39;t make any sense to me,&quot; said Roy Harris, a Cameron cousin. &quot;Why do you kill somebody over a $25 phone bill? He wasn&#39;t that type of guy, wasn&#39;t a street guy.&quot;<br /><br />&quot;I can&#39;t make much sense out of any of this,&quot; said Lakisha Harris, another cousin.<br /><br />Relatives described Cameron as an ailing man, robbed of his vision by diabetes. He suffered from high blood pressure and a heart condition, and lived on public assistance and through the kindness of relatives, who would bring him food and cook his meals, Roy Harris said.<br /><br />The relatives wondered how Cameron could have shot Garris numerous times - reportedly as many as six - given his physical condition.<br /><br />&quot;One eye is completely blind, and the other he only sees shadows,&quot; said cousin Benita Harris. &quot;How could he shoot her so many times? I mean, was she just standing there waiting for it?&quot;<br /><br />&quot;How do you charge a blind man with murder?&quot; Roy Harris asked.<br /><br />Cameron and Garris maintained an &quot;on again, off again&quot; relationship for a year, said Laura Harris, Cameron&#39;s sister.<br /><br />The pair had lived together for a short time, but broke up about three months ago, Molinelli said.<br /><br />Benita Harris said the relationship had deteriorated as Cameron&#39;s medical condition worsened.<br /><br />&quot;He used to go out and do things, and he couldn&#39;t no more,&quot; she said. &quot;And [Garris] said she couldn&#39;t handle it anymore. She couldn&#39;t handle his disabilities.&quot;<br /><br />Little was known about Garris on Monday night. None of her family could be reached, and her mother, who also lives in the complex, was not home. One of Cameron&#39;s relatives said Garris was the single mother of a 5-year-old son and worked at a nearby Walgreens.<br /><br />Authorities did not say why they thought the shooting resulted from an argument about a telephone bill.<br /><br />Staff Writers Carolyn Salazar and Yung Kim contributed to this article. E-mail: troncone@northjersey.com<br /> 
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