What to Know
- A woman was stabbed to death in her New Jersey home on Sunday, officials said
- Officers responded to the home in Fair Lawn after someone called 9-1-1 and hung up
- A family member who lived at the house with the woman was taken into custody, and an investigation is ongoing
A woman was stabbed to death in her New Jersey home on Sunday, officials said.
Officers responded to a house on Halstead Terrace, in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, around 3 p.m. after someone called 9-1-1 and hung up, the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office said.
When they arrived, they discovered a woman who lived in the house had been stabbed, prosecutors said.
The woman was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, according to prosecutors.
A family member who lived at the house with the woman was taken into custody, and an investigation is ongoing, prosecutors said.
Neighbors told NBC New York a woman and her son lived at the home, which is in a quiet neighborhood where crimes rarely happen. The two kept to themselves, according to neighbors.
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Officials didn’t immediately release the victim's name and age, nor the identify of the person taken into custody.
