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Jose Vasquez-Gonzales pulled a knife and stabbed Luis Cruz, 35, in the abdomen during a fight on the front lawn of the East Ridgewood Avenue boarding home just after midnight, Police Chief Kenneth Ehrenberg said.
Vasquez-Gonzales, a 49-year-old Dominican national, ran toward the Fashion Center mall on Route 17 as a squadron of police vehicles converged on the area.
An EMS crew from New Bridge Medical Center saw him running through the parking lot and notified police, Ehrenberg said.
Vasquez-Gonzalez struggled briefly with responding Officers Don Liu and Officer Anthony Mordaga before they subdued him, the chief said.
Police charged Vasquez-Gonzalez with aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and weapons offenses and sent him to the Bergen County Jail to await a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack.
Cruz, meanwhile, remained in serious but stable condition at Hackensack University Medical Center.
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