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Jorge Santiago-Garcia was sentenced on his previously entered guilty plea to aggravated manslaughter in connection with the stabbing death of Rodrigo Jimenez-Paz in Lakewood Township on August 31, 2020.
On August 31, 2020, Lakewood police were summoned to a business on 2nd Avenue in Lakewood in response to multiple 911 calls indicating that an individual had been stabbed at that location. Officers found Jimenez-Paz, 29, of Lakewood with a stab wound to his chest, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer.
Medical units took Jimenez-Paz to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune; lifesaving efforts were unsuccessful, and he was subsequently pronounced dead.
An investigation by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crime Unit, Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office High Tech Crime Unit, and Lakewood Police Department, identified Santiago-Garcia as the individual who stabbed Jimenez-Paz, Billhimer said.
Santiago-Garcia was taken into custody and has been held in the Ocean County Jail since his arrest.
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