10:30AM EST: (Earlier updates below) Sources confirm to YWN that a NJ State Trooper has taken his own life, Wednesday morning, on the Garden State Parkway.

UPDATE 1:45PM EST: The New Jersey State Police family mourns the death of Trooper Scott Graham, 35, of Monmouth County.  Trooper Graham died of a single gunshot wound this morning.

He was found shortly after 7:30 a.m. in a marked State Police vehicle parked on the side of the off ramp from the southbound Garden State Parkway southbound to Rt. 34 southbound in Wall Township, Monmouth County. This was reported by passing motorist who is a law enforcement officer.

Although the death has not been officially categorized and is still under investigation, no suspects are being sought.

At 10:32 a.m.,Tpr. Graham was pronounced at the scene by a member of the Monmouth County Medical Examiner’s Office, who subsequently removed his body.

The exit 98 ramp was reopened at 11:30 a.m.

Tpr. Graham was a member of the 119th State Police Class.  He graduated in March of 2001 and had been a trooper for ten years.  He was assigned to the State Police Academy.

He leaves behind a wife and three young children.  Funeral arrangements have not yet been made. A report of a vehicle with possible gunshot holes was called in by a motorist shortly after Tpr. Graham was discovered. That report was investigated and found to be both inaccurate and unrelated to this tragic incident.

UPDATE 10:11AM EST: YWN can confirm that police are not searching for ANY suspects at this time….. DEVELOPING….

UPDATE 8:55AM EST: Highly credible sources tell YWN that the Trooper has succumbed to his injuries. No further information can be released at this time.

8:25AM EST: A state trooper has been shot in southern New Jersey, YWN has learned.

The trooper was shot in Wall Township Wednesday morning. 

The trooper is reported to be in critical condition.

Police say the shooting took place on the Garden State Parkway near Route 34 in Wall Township.

The driver fled the scene in a red Isuzu Trooper which may have bullet holes in it.

The ramp from the southbound Garden State Parkway at Exit 98 to Route 138 is closed for police activity, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority reported. The ramp to the Route 34 South at the exit is also partially closed, the authority reported.

Police were seen with their guns drawn at Exit 98, on the ramp from the Parkway to Interstate 95 West.

Just last week, a NJ State Trooper was tragically struck and killed by a vehicle on the 195 while searching for a gunman.

Stay with YWN for more on this breaking story.

(Yehuda Drudgestein – YWN)