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Elizabeth Man Gets 25 Years For Bludgeoning Woman To Death: Authorities
A 34-year-old Elizabeth man was sentenced to 25 years in state prison on Friday, Sept. 6, after he bludgeoned a woman to death in 2022, authorities said.
On Sept. 11, 2022, at 2 a.m., police in Elizabeth found Carmen Lopez Barahona, a 30-year-old Elizabeth woman, dead after sustaining blunt force trauma to the head, Union County Prosecutor William Daniel, Elizabeth Police Chief Giacomo Sacca, and Elizabeth Police Director Earl Graves said.
Gomez fled the scene and his vehicle was later located in Perth Amboy, where he was apprehended and transported back to Union County, authoriti…
Man Beat On Jersey City Street Dies, Charges Upgraded For Assailant: Prosecutor
Charges were upgraded for a Hudson County man after the man he beat unconscious died, authorities said.
Robert Stevens, 40, of Union City, beat 51-year-old Anthony Passero on Bergen Avenue between Myrtle and Bostwick avenues in Jersey City around 10:20 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 2, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said.
Passero was brought to Jersey City Medical Center, where he died of his injuries on Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022 at approximately 12:40 a.m., Suarez said. The Regional Medical Examiner’s Officer determined Passero died of blunt force trauma and the manner of death …
South Jersey Man, 29, Charged With Manslaughter After Victim Dies From Punch In Jaw
A South Jersey man died on Sunday of head injuries he sustained in a fight in January, authorities said.
James Bates, 47, of Chesilhurst had been punched in the jaw, according to Acting Camden County Prosecutor Jill S. Mayer and Chesilhurst Police Chief Wendell Smith.
Bates' attacker, Alexander Toussaint, 29, of Chesilhurst, has been newly charged with first-degree manslaughter and third-degree aggravated assault, Mayer and Smith said.
Touissant had lived in a nearby residential center for mentally disturbed people, Smith said.
Police officers responded to the …