Stabbing Results In Murder Charge Against Neptune Man

FREEHOLD, NJ — A Neptune Township man has been charged with murder as a result of a stabbing that took place Sunday morning in Neptune, said Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey.

Derrick Simms, 32, of Neptune, has been charged with first-degree murder, third-degree unlawful possession of a weapon (a knife) and third-degree hindering after the fatal stabbing of a male victim during an argument on Sunday morning, Aug. 7, the prosecutor's office said in a news release. The name of the victim was not released as yet by authorities.

At about 5:44 a.m. on Sunday morning, Neptune Township Police Department officers were dispatched to Squirrel Road in Neptune for a reported stabbing, the news release said. Upon arrival, one male victim was discovered in the front yard, unresponsive, with a stab wound. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, the news release said.

Simms is being held at the Monmouth County Correctional Institution, pending a detention hearing, the prosecutor's office said.

The investigation is active. If anyone has any information regarding this case, contact Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office Detective Christopher Guy at 800-533-7443 or Neptune Township Police Officer Robert Hagerman at 732-988-8000.

The case is assigned to Monmouth County Assistant Prosecutor Matthew Bogner. Information regarding Simms’s representation was not immediately available.