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Clayton Robinson, 26, was brought to the Bergen County Jail earlier today after being extradited from the Bronx, where police arrested him after finding his roommate, 41-year-old Paul Calli, beaten, cut up and semi-conscious in a closet of his First Street apartment on March 6.
Robinson is charged with murder, purposefully causing death during the commission of a crime, robbery and theft.
Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli (PHOTO: Mary K. Miraglia, CLIFFVIEW PILOT Courthouse Reporter)
Family members hadn’t heard from Calli in more than a day, Detective Capt. Thomas Salcedo told CLIFFVIEW PILOT at the time. When he didn’t show up for work, one of them called police.
Officers were let into his apartment by the building management company and found him.
“We couldn’t really interview him,” Salcedo said. “He was in and out of consciousness.”
Robinson and his girlfriend got into an argument after she came to the apartment the night before, the captain said.
“Calli “tried to intervene on her behalf and was beaten,” he said.
Robinson also attacked Calli with pieces of a mirror that fell off the wall and broke during the struggle, he said.
He then stole Calli’s car and drove to a Bronx apartment where he’d also been living, Salcedo said.
Calli remained in critical condition at Hackensack University Medical Center after sustaining blunt-force trauma to his head and several cuts and bruises on his head and neck. He died last Wednesday night, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said Thursday, in announcing the upgraded charges.
MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE
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