Authorities investigate homicide at Eagle Rock Reservation

WEST ORANGE / MONTCLAIR, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force is investigating the fatal shooting of a still unidentified male, according to a March 5 press release from the ECPO.  The victim was found by hikers on March 4 on a hiking trail at Eagle Rock Reservation on the West […]

Newark man captured and arrested for summertime Elizabeth slaying

ELIZABETH, NJ — A Newark resident was arrested Feb. 1, after having been criminally charged with shooting an Elizabeth man several times and killing him in the city this past August, Union County Prosecutor William A. Daniel, Elizabeth Police Director Earl Graves and Elizabeth Police Chief Giacomo Sacca jointly announced. Jefferson Louis, 25, is charged […]

Nutley police arrest man for killing his mother-in-law

Nutley police arrest man for killing his mother-in-law

NUTLEY, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and Nutley Police Chief Thomas J. Strumolo announced Dec. 15 that the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and the Nutley Police Department are investigating the murder of Barbara Ann Bezzone, 84, of Nutley. On Tuesday, Dec. 14, at approximately 8:21 p.m., […]

44-year-old Irvington man shot to death in Newark

NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, is investigating the fatal shooting of Cornell Daniels, 44, of Irvington, according to a Dec. 13 press release from the ECPO. On Sunday, Dec. 12, there were reports of gunshots fired on Stuyvesant Avenue in […]

Charges filed in homicide at Essex County Correctional Facility

NEWARK, NJ — Ashton D. Barthelus, 26, of Carteret, has been charged with the murder of Dan G. Milford Gelin, 27, of Elizabeth, according to a Dec. 9 press release from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. It is alleged that Barthelus fatally stabbed Gelin at the Essex County Correctional Facility in Newark. Gelin was transported […]

Four teens shot in Newark, 17-year-old dies from injuries

NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, is investigating a quadruple shooting that resulted in the death of 17-year-old Djiba Kaba and non–life-threatening injuries to three other teenagers — another male and two females — who were also shot, according to a […]

Newark police officer from Bloomfield charged with vehicle homicide

Newark police officer from Bloomfield charged with vehicle homicide

NEWARK, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II announced Nov. 24 that Newark Police Officer Louis Santiago, 25, of Bloomfield, has been charged with reckless vehicular homicide, desecrating human remains and related charges for hitting a pedestrian on the Garden State Parkway, leaving the scene, then coming back and putting the victim […]

17-year-old shot to death Quitman Street in Newark

NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, is investigating the death of 17-year-old Yashawn A. Hansen, of Newark, according to a Nov. 22 press release from the ECPO. On Nov. 16, Newark police responded to Quitman Street in Newark on a report […]

17-year-old shot to death in Newark

NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, is investigating the death of Altamir Mayweather, 17, of Newark, according to a Nov. 19 press release from the ECPO. On Nov. 16, Newark police were dispatched to the Oscar Miles Housing Complex in the […]

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