Suspect arrested for machete attack against woman in NJ apartment building

A fishy has been arrested for slashing a pistillate with a machete wrong a New Jersey flat building, officials announced.

Josue Corea is facing counts of attempted murder, aggravated assault, weapons offenses and resisting apprehension successful transportation with the onslaught successful Bergen County, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office said successful a property merchandise precocious Wednesday.

The unit unfolded Tuesday greeting astatine an flat gathering connected Day Ave. successful Fairview. When officers arrived connected the country astir 10:10 a.m., they discovered a 49-year-old woman suffering from a ample gash to the head. She was transported to Hackensack University Medical Center, wherever she remained hospitalized successful unchangeable information arsenic of Thursday morning.

Detectives with the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit were alerted to the attack and a associated probe was subsequently launched with the Fairview Police Department. It revealed that Corea, a nonmigratory successful the flat building, approached the pistillate adjacent a communal country stairwell and past struck her successful the caput with a machete.

Corea past “attempted to strike the victim respective much times earlier yet fleeing the scene,” according the prosecutor’s office.

Some 45 minutes later, the fishy was spotted traveling on River Road successful Edgewater. He was past taken into custody by the Cliffside Park Police Department, prosecutors said.

Corea was being held astatine the Bergen County Jail pending his archetypal tribunal appearance. Authorities did not accidental whether helium knew the unfortunate and his motive is inactive unknown.