Long Branch Man Stabbed In Metuchen Home, Where He Was Visiting A Woman

METUCHEN, NJ — A 23-year-old Long Branch man survived being stabbed inside a home in Metuchen after a fight broke out between him and another man, said Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Metuchen Police Chief Arthur Flaherty.

A New Brunswick man, Peter Fragoso, 29, is charged with stabbing him. Police say this is not a random act of violence, and that the two men knew each other.

The name of the Long Branch man will not be released, as he is a victim of a crime.

According to the police report, the dispute started after the Long Branch man showed up unannounced to a woman's home on Durham Avenue in Metuchen at 7:34 p.m. last Wednesday. The woman said the Long Branch man walked into her home unannounced, and that's when a verbal and physical argument broke out between him and Fragoso, who was in the home at the time. She said Fragoso grabbed a knife from the dishwasher and she did not see what happened next, but she did "see blood," read the police report.

The woman said she ran outside the home with her three children and called 911. She told police she saw the Long Branch man run from the home screaming in pain and screaming "I'm dying!"

Metuchen Police found the Long Branch man suffering from multiple serious stab wounds. He was rushed to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital where he was treated for his injuries and survived.

Fragoso was arrested the next day and charged with first-degree attempted murder, multiple weapons offenses and obstruction of justice.