Prosecutor: Brick Man Charged With Attempted Murder After Woman Says He Stabbed Her

A 50-year-old woman is in critical condition at Jersey Shore University Medical Center after she was stabbed at a Cedar Bridge Avenue residence on Sunday evening, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said.

Christopher Dalzell, 58, of Brick has been charged with attempted murder in the stabbing of the woman, said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.

The woman’s name has not been released by law enforcement.

Della Fave said Brick Township police responded to a call shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday regarding a stabbing at a Cedar Bridge address. Upon arrival they found the woman, who had been stabbed multiple times in the chest and abdomen.

The woman was alert, however, and told police she knew the man who stabbed her and that he was still in the bedroom of the residence, Della Fave said. Police called EMS to treat the woman, and while she was being taken to Jersey Shore, searched the home and found Dalzell in the bedroom, covered in blood, he said.

Dalzell was charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon, and Judge Francis Hodgson set bail at $250,000, no 10 percent option, and ordered he have no contact with the woman.

Brick Township Police Detective Tim McCarthy and Major Crimes Detective John Murphy of the prosecutor’s office are the lead investigators in the case. The scene was processed by Ocean County Sheriff’s Department CSI Detective John Anderson.