Jamesburg Son Stabbed Father, Another Man To Death, Police Say

JAMESBURG, NJ — In Jamesburg last week, a 21-year-old son is accused of stabbing his father and another man to death and then setting fire to the house the two men lived in, according to the Middlesex County prosecutor.

Local firefighters and police were called to the burning single-family home on Sheridan Street at 3:45 a.m. last Wednesday, Nov. 6. The home had suffered extensive fire damage, and the dead bodies of two adult men were found inside, said the county prosecutor.

The first man was identified as Clifford Kitchen, 53. The second man was just identified today as Gregory Fischer, 53. Both men lived in the home.

Kitchen's son, Jaree D. Kitchen, 21, also of Jamesburg, is charged with their murders. Police say he stabbed both men to death and then set the home on fire.

Kitchen's sister, who lives in the area, told CBS 2 her brother was "a good-hearted person. He loved to have fun. He had a loving heart. He would take anyone in his home.”

The young man is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, aggravated arson in the second degree, hindering his own prosecution in the third degree, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose in the third degree and destroying physical evidence in the fourth degree.

He is being held at the Middlesex County Adult Corrections Center pending a Detention Hearing scheduled for November 13.

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