Crime & Safety
Arrest Made in Fatal Saturday Suydam Street Stabbing
Police arrested a suspect in the early Saturday morning stabbing a little more than six hours after it happened.
A New Brunswick man has been charged with murder for allegedly stabbing another New Brunswick man to death early Saturday morning.
Carlos Lopez, 47, was arrested at his Handy Street home at 9:19 a.m. Saturday and charged with murder in relation to the death of David Campos-Garcia.
Campos-Garcia was fatally stabbed on Suydam Street just before 2:50 a.m. Saturday, according to a release from the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office.
Campos-Garcia was pronounced dead at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at 3:43 a.m. Saturday, according to the release.
Lopez is jailed with bail set at $1 million, according to the release.
Police continue to investigate the stabbing and ask anyone with information to call Det. Drew Weiss of the New Brunswick Police Department at (732) 745-5217, or Investigator Adrian Villegas of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at (723) 745-3300.
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