Accused New Year’s Eve Mother Murderer Arrested In Hudson County, N.J.

HUDSON COUNTY, NJ — Police have arrested a Hudson County man suspected of murdering his mother at a public housing complex in Bayonne on New Year’s Eve, authorities say.

According to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, Bayonne police officers responded to a 9-1-1 call about an injured man in the rear courtyard of the Pamrapo Gardens Public Housing Complex on East 50th Street around 10:50 p.m. on Dec. 31.

On arrival, officers discovered 49-year-old Michael Metro suffering from upper body injuries and an open, third-floor window above the area where they found him.

The officers then entered the apartment to find the lifeless body of Metro’s mother – 69-year-old Kathleen Metro – lying on the floor with “visible trauma to her upper torso,” prosecutors said.

A medical examiner determined the cause of death was asphyxiation, and authorities subsequently ruled the manner of death to be a homicide, prosecutors said.

Emergency responders transported Metro to Jersey City Medical Center where he was treated for multiple injuries.

On Monday, prosecutors charged Metro with murder. He is being detained at the hospital, and a Superior Court judge has assigned him a no bail option.

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