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Fugitive Wanted For Setting Humc Co-Worker On Fire Found Dead Of Suicide
UPDATE: A contract nurse who fled after authorities said he set a 54-year-old colleague at Hackensack University Medical Center on fire was found dead of suicide in South Jersey, authorities said.
The body of Nicholas Pagano, 31, of West Deptford was found in a wooded area of Waterford Township, in Camden County, a two-hour drive of more than 100 miles from Hackensack, early Tuesday, Feb. 8, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said.
He'd shot himself once in the chest, apparently with a gun that had been stolen from his brother's home, law enforcement sources said.
HUMC employees were n…
Police: Hackensack Mechanic Chokes Woman, Beats Boy Who Tried To Save Her
A Hackensack auto mechanic assaulted a juvenile who tried to rescue a woman he was choking, authorities charged.
Jorge E. Reina, a 40-year-old Colombian national, was charged with assaulting the same boy in 2016, records show.
The woman told officers who responded to the 911 call shortly before 8 a.m. this past Friday that Reina “became enraged during an argument and strangled her with his hand,” Capt. Darrin DeWitt, the officer in charge of the Hackensack Police Department, said Monday.
The boy, 15, intervened and a struggle continued outside, where Reina allegedly “slammed the juve…
