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Randy Barrett Jr. stabbed one of four men who confronted him near the corner of Fourth and Jefferson streets around 4:15 a.m. March 16, city police said.
Sgt. James Barbaro and Officer Aaron Font applied a chest seal and administered oxygen before Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corps members brought the victim to a local hospital with a collapsed lung, among other injuries.
He survived and was released a few days later, police said.
Barrett, meanwhile, fled the scene, they said.
It didn’t take long for Police Officer Samuel Flores and Detective Connor Milne to identify him and obtain arrest warrants on March 19.
Barrett surrendered to police the very next day, they said.
In addition to attempted murder, he was charged with two counts of aggravated assault, burglary, theft and weapons offenses.
Barrett remained held in the Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny.
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