Police investigate murder of veterinarian found dead outside his Cherry Hill home
Michael Anthony, 45, was found dead outside his home on Sharrowvale Road, in Cherry Hill, police said.
Camden County authorities are investigating the murder of a 45-year-old man who was found dead outside his Cherry Hill home, authorities said Wednesday.
Michael Anthony, a veterinarian with a practice in Haddon Heights, was pronounced dead early Tuesday morning after police were called to his home on the 100 block of Sharrowdale Road.
His death was being investigated as a homicide, said Donna Weaver, spokesperson for the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office.
Authorities did not release any additional information about the slaying. They did not say how Anthony was killed and did not disclose a possible motive. Nor did they say whether a suspect had been identified or arrested.
A neighbor, who asked not to be identified, said Anthony had lived in the house in the Barclay Farm section of the township for several years and shared the residence with another man. Anthony mostly kept to himself, he said.
The neighbor said he did not know that anything had happened Tuesday morning until police came to his door to ask if he had a security camera.
Anthony, the owner of Haddon Vet, grew up outside Washington D.C. “in a house where there were pets of all shapes and sizes,” and that led him to pursue veterinary medicine as a career, according to the website for the business.
He graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College with a degree in psychology, the website said, and then attended the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, where he graduated with honors with an emphasis in small animals.
Anthony worked in general and emergency practices in Camden, Gloucester, and Ocean Counties throughout his career, the website said.
A Facebook post on Haddon Vet’s page in 2018 announced that Anthony had become the owner of the practice and described him as “an avid runner, reader, and a lover of movies.”
“He also enjoys playing soccer and all other sports with his partner and two very active sons,” the post said, adding that he had two dogs and four cats.
A woman who answered the phone at Haddon Vet on Wednesday was clearly shaken and declined to comment.
Anyone with information was asked to call Detective Daniel Crawford of the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office at 856-580-2223 or Detective Frank Kirsch of the Cherry Hill Police Department at 856-432-8834. Tips can also be sent to CAMDEN.TIP.