New Jersey church shooting suspect nabbed, second victim dead

Joseph, 27, of Sacramento, drove cross-country in a green Jeep to confront his estranged wife, Reshma James, 24, who had sought refuge with relatives in New Jersey, said Detective Capt. Robert Rowan of the Clifton police. Pallipurath barged into the St. Thomas Syrian Orthodox Knanaya Church just before noon and confronted his wife in the vestibule, the authorities said. When she refused to leave with him, he shot her, one of her relatives and another man in their heads with a silver handgun, the police said. Reshma died on Sunday at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, the police said. The second victim, Dennis John Malloosseril, a 25-year-old church director, died early on Monday at the hospital. The third victim, Silvy Perincheril, 47, of Hawthorne, the principal of the church’s Sunday school, was in a critical condition.