Bloomfield Avenue Stabbing Victim May Have Been Guatemalan Immigrant: Prosecutor

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — The victim of a recent fatal stabbing at a Bloomfield Avenue apartment was apparently a Guatemalan native living and working in New Jersey, prosecutors say.

On Sunday, a young man was fatally stabbed around 2:30 p.m. in an apartment above “a business he shared with other men” on the 400 block of Bloomfield Avenue in Caldwell, according to a joint news release from Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray and Caldwell Police Chief James Bongiorno.

The name of the victim is not being released at this time because his identity has not been formally confirmed and next of kin have not been notified, authorities said.

It’s believed that the victim is from Guatemala and was living and working in Caldwell at the time of his murder, prosecutors said.

“A preliminary investigation indicates this was not a stranger-to-stranger attack,” prosecutors stated. “The victim and the attacker are believed to have known one another.”

No arrests have been made, and an investigation is active and ongoing, authorities stated.