NJ Man Killed His Father, Another Man, Jury Finds

JAMESBURG, NJ — A 24-year-old Middlesex County man was found guilty this month of stabbing his father to death, plus a second man, after weeks of he and his father arguing in their Jamesburg home.

A Middlesex County jury found Jaree Kitchen, 24, guilty on June 1 with killing the two men, after a two-week trial.

The double murder occurred on November 4, 2019.

The young man had recently moved back to Jamesburg from Georgia to live with his father, Clifford Kitchen Jr., 53.

But soon after he moved back into his father's house on Sheridan Street, the father and son began having "significant issues," said the Middlesex County Prosecutor, who did not say what those issues were.

Before he was killed, the father had told a female friend that he "can’t handle his son anymore and that he believed his son was going to kill him," NJ.com reported from the trial.

This erupted into a physical altercation that resulted in Kitchen fatally stabbing both his father and his father's friend who lived in the home, Gregory Fisher, also 53, on November 4, 2019.

Two days later, on Nov. 6, the young man set the home on fire to hide evidence of the murder and the two men's bodies.

A jury found Kitchen guilty of two counts of murder, aggravated arson, possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, two counts of desecrating human remains and tampering with evidence related to the murders.

Kitchen will be sentenced Oct. 28.