Stabbed Passaic Man, 25, Made Way Up Street Before Collapsing, Dies At Hospital
A stabbing victim who was found gravely injured in a Passaic backyard was pronounced dead a short time later, authorities said.
City resident Richard Batista, 25, was found face-down behind the Master Kitchen Restaurant on Passaic Street off Fourth Street shortly after 7 a.m. Sunday, March 3, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Passaic Police Chief Luis A. Guzman
He apparently had been stabbed near Third Street before making his way there.
Batista was taken to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, where he was pronounced dead, Valdes and Guzman said in a brief rel…
Man, 39, Gunned Down In Paterson Was Warren County Resident, Authorities Say
A registered sex offender from Paterson shot an out-of-county man dead on a street behind the public library last week, authorities said.
Ex-con Jaquan Housey, 33, was charged with murder and weapons offenses in the slaying of Rodney Phelps, 39, of Warren County’s Washington Township.
Responding officers found Phelps’s body in the middle of Van Van Houten Avenue between the library and the Edward W. Kilpatrick School shortly before 11:30 p.m. last Friday, Feb. 4.
He’d been shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Po…
