The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office has announced that a man is in custody for a deadly
stabbing at a Jersey City Light Rail station.
Anthony Bell, 37, of Jersey City, has been charged
with murder in the death of Kenneth Brown, 49, also of Jersey City. He was
arrested Saturday.
Police were
notified Friday of an injured person on the platform of the Danforth Avenue
Light Rail Station. Officers found a male, later identified as Brown, with an
apparent stab wound to his upper body. He was transported by Emergency Medical
Services to Jersey City Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
The cause
and manner of death are pending the findings of the Regional Medical Examiner's
Office.
It’s the first homicide of the year in
Hudson County.
Bell now sits in the Hudson
County Correctional Facility awaiting trial.