Man expected to recover from gunshot wounds
BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer

BRICK TOWNSHIP - A local man is expected to be in intensive care for the next several weeks while he recovers from five gunshot wounds, police said.

Kevin Kreiss, 54, was in stable condition at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, where he was still on a ventilator, said police Lt. John Rein.

Richard Stanek, 28, Kreiss's girlfriend's son, was arrested and charged in the Labor Day shooting at their Cape Breton home. Kreiss was shot four times in the abdomen, once in the head and was beaten with the gun, a .44-caliber pistol, Rein said.

Kreiss is expected to recover eventually, police said.

Stanek was being held in the Ocean County jail in Toms River on $500,000 bail, with no 10 percent option.

Police originally responded to the area when a resident called to report what sounded like gunshots.

But the resident wasn't sure what house the sounds came from, and police eventually left the area.

Police returned half an hour later, after they received a call from Kreiss, who told them he had been shot, police said. Stanek was taken into custody after a nine-hour standoff with police. He was found hiding under a bed in an upstairs bedroom.