Bergen County Man Who's Charged With Murdering Father Used Metal Pipe And Knife: Police

BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — After a 60-year-old Wyckoff Lakes man was charged with his father's death on Sunday, police have identified two of the weapons used.

On Sunday, David Allen Hagal, 60, was charged with killing George J. Hagal, 87, at their home some time that morning, said the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office.

Prosecutors said that around 7:33 a.m. Sunday, Franklin Lakes Police responded to 552 Haddon Place and found Hagal dead. The address is a home on a wooded residential street.

Later, David Allen Hagal, who shares the Haddon Place address, was charged with first-degree murder, two counts of third-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and two counts of fourth-degree unlawful possession of a weapon.

While prosecutors did not state the relationship between the two men, records indicate that the pair were father and son, and that the elder Hagal's wife had passed away this year.

According to a complaint from the Franklin Lakes police obtained on Tuesday, the younger Hagal was charged, in part, with possessing a metal pipe "that was used to commit murder" and possessing a kitchen knife "that was used to commit murder."

Another court document, obtained from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, says that Hagal then went to police headquarters to tell them about the crime. The document said he "reported that he murdered his father in their residence" by bludgeoning him, stabbing him, then drowning him in a bucket of water.

The document also says that he "exhibited suicidal behavior."

A friend commenting on the younger Hagal's Facebook page called the situation "a tragedy of enormous proportions."

Franklin Lakes is the wealthy Bergen County community where several cast members on "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" reside.

See prior reporting: Man Charged With Murder In Franklin Lakes Home