Hoboken Man Charged With Murder, Violating Restraining Order In Jersey City Stabbing

JERSEY CITY, NJ — A Hoboken man was charged with murder and violating a restraining order on Thursday in connection with two stabbings in Jersey City Tuesday that left a man dead and a woman injured.

Joshua Gonzalez, 24, of Hoboken, was arrested in Bloomfield, N.J. at approximately 11:10 a.m. by members of the United States Marshals Service New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force, said the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office.

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit has charged Gonzalez with murder, attempted murder, burglary, unlawful possession of a knife, resisting arrest by flight, and violation of a restraining order.

Gonzalez was transported to the Hudson County Correctional Facility in Kearny pending his First Appearance.

Prosecutors said that Tuesday, at approximately 6:42 a.m., members of the Jersey City Police Department responded to Clinton Avenue on reports of an aggravated assault. Responding officers found a 22-year-old woman with a serious apparent stab wound.

The woman was transported by Emergency Medical Services to Jersey City Medical Center where she remains in stable condition.

At approximately 10 a.m., the Jersey City Police Department was notified that an injured person
was located at a McAdoo Avenue address. Responding officers found the lifeless body of a man — lateridentified as Jason Khusial, 21, of Jersey City — with multiple apparent stab wounds. He was
pronounced dead at the scene at 10:14 a.m. The Regional Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death to be multiple sharp force wounds to the torso and the manner of death to be
homicide.

The investigation determined Khusial had been injured during the Clinton Avenue incident.

Prosecutor Suarez credited the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit and the Jersey
City Police Department with the investigation and the United States Marshals Service New
York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force with the arrest.