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Family members hadn’t heard from the 41-year-old victim in more than a day, Detective Capt. Thomas Salcedo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. When he didn’t show up for work, one of them called police.
Officers went to his First Street apartment, where they were let in by the building management company around noon yesterday, Salcedo said. That’s when they found the victim.
“We couldn’t really interview him,” Salcedo said. “He was in and out of consciousness.”
His occasional roomate, Clayton Robinson, 26, quickly became a suspect.
Salcedo said Robinson and his girlfriend got into an argument after she came to the apartment around 10:45 Wednesday night.
“The victim tried to intervene on her behalf and was beaten,” the captain said.
Robinson also attacked the man with pieces of a mirror that fell off the wall and broke during the struggle, he said.
The victim, who remained in critical condition at Hackensack University Medical Center, sustained blunt-force trauma and “had several cuts and bruises on his head and neck,” Salcedo said.
Hackensack police went to a Bronx apartment where Robinson also stays and found him and the victim’s stolen car, he said.
Once he’s extradited, Robinson will face charges of attempted murder, robbery and theft, with a $500,000 bail, Salcedo said.
Right now he’s being held without bond as a fugitive.
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