Newark Teen Indicted In Mercer County Man's Murder: Prosecutor

A Newark teenager has been indicted on five counts in the fatal stabbing of 27-year-old Carlos Leiva-Oviedo, Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo J. Onofri said Monday afternoon.

Danny Saad, 16, was indicted on one count of first-degree murder, one count of first-degree felony murder, one count of first-degree robbery, one count of third-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and one count of fourth-degree unlawful possession of a weapon.

Saad was 15 at the time police believe he stabbed Leiva-Oviedo. He was waived to adult court in April. He remains in the Middlesex County Youth Detention Center.

Trenton police officers found Leiva-Ovieda collapsed near his car on Hudson Street suffering from multiple stab wounds while responding to Hudson and Genesee streets on a report of a man bleeding at about 3 a.m. on June 14, 2016.

Leiva-Oviedo was taken to Capital Health Regional Medical Center where he succumbed to his injuries.
Police were able to identify Saad as a suspect after releasing video and still images from the scene to the media in July of 2016.

He was subsequently arrested at a relative’s house in Newark. Another man is pictured in the photos, but has not been identified by police.

Attached image from the scene was previously provided by the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office