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'I Think She's Dead': Son Charged With Killing Mom, 79, With Fire Iron Called 911 'I Think She's Dead': Son Charged With Killing Mom, 79, With Fire Iron Called 911
'I Think She's Dead': Son Charged With Killing Mom, 79, With Fire Iron Called 911 UPDATE: A man charged with brutally bludgeoning his 79-year-old mother with a fireplace poker called 911 to report the crime, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. Responding police officers found Patrick Maupai, 40, on the lawn of the New Milford Avenue home that he shared with his mother, Linda Maupai, across the street from Dumont High School. He was still on the phone talking with the dispatcher shortly before midnight Sunday, the prosecutor said. Maupai had admitted hitting his mother with the fire iron, Musella said. He also told the dispatcher that he believed she was dea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Men Killed In Two Separate July 4th Newark Shootings: Prosecutor Men Killed In Two Separate July 4th Newark Shootings: Prosecutor
Men Killed In Two Separate July 4th Newark Shootings: Prosecutor Police are asking for the public's help after two shootings hours apart left two men dead in Newark on Monday, July 4. Officers were called to the first shooting around 12:35 p.m. on the 100 block of Irvine Turner Boulevard, where they found 39-year-old Raakin J. Brown with gunshot wounds, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II said alongside Acting Newark Public Safety Director Raul Malave. Brown, of Newark, was rushed to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:09 p.m. The second shooting took place just after 5 p.m. on the 200 bloc…

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by Nicole Acosta