NEWARK, NJ – Newark Public Safety Director Brian A. O’Hara requests the public’s help with identifying the below-pictured suspects who robbed and stabbed a city resident after forcing their way into his apartment on October 23, 2021.
Police responded to a call about a stabbing in progress around 1:42 a.m. on Van Vechten Street. The victim told officers that he was waiting for a woman he had met to come to his apartment. When he heard a knock at the door he opened it and two men that he knows forced their way in brandishing a knife and a gun.
The suspects took $400 and a gold chain after the first suspect stabbed the victim on his forearm with a knife.
The first suspect, described as a 5’6’’ to 5’8’’ Black male, has gray hair, a medium build, and appears to be in his 50s. He was wearing a baseball cap, a dark-colored sweatshirt with a hood, green pants, and a yellow vest with City of Newark written on the back.
The second suspect is described as a 5’10’’ Black male with a medium build and appears to be 40 to 50-years-old. He was wearing a dark-colored sweatshirt with a hood, black jeans, a ski mask, and dark-colored boots.