New Brunswick Man Charged With South Brunswick Murder

A New Brunswick man has been charged with the murder of a 24-year-old woman, who was fatally shot outside a South Brunswick business.

Giver J. Vasquez, 25, was charged with murder, stalking, possession of a weapon and unlawful possession of a weapon in the death of 24-year-old Alicia Martinez-Izaguirr of New Brunswick.

She was fatally shot Wednesday morning in the parking lot of a company on Docks Corner Road in South Brunswick.

Vasquez was arrested around 8 p.m. Thursday, after he was traced to the home of an acquaintance in New Hope, Pennsylvania, according to a news release from Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and Chief Raymond Hayducka of the South Brunswick Police Department.

According to news releases:

Vazquez borrowed a 2004 silver Volkswagen Passat from one of his friends and he used that car to to follow the victim, whom he knew.

Around 7 a.m. he approached her in the parking lot of the Docks Corner Road company, where he shot her.

Then he fled in the borrowed car, which he later abandoned.

Police determined the shooting was not a random act.

Bail was set in New Jersey at $2 million for Vasquez.

He is being held at the Bucks County Correctional Facility in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, awaiting extradition.

It was not immediately known when he will be returned to New Jersey.

Anyone with information on the case, or anyone who may have seen the Volkswagen Passat, is asked to call Detective Monica Shearer of the South Brunswick Police Department at (732) 329­-4646, or Detective Craig Marchak of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at (732) 745­-3254.

Carey thanked the law enforcement agencies that assisted local and county authorities, including the New Hope Police Department and New Brunswick Police Department.

In a prepared statement, Hayducka also praised law enforcement:

“The tireless effort over the past forty-eight hours by more than a dozen detectives and crime scene technicians has led to capturing this young woman’s killer. I want to specifically thank Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and his office for their efforts. I hope the efforts of all those involved to apprehend this suspect can bring some closure to the Ms. Martinez-Izaguirr’s family.”

Photos courtesy Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office