Indictment handed up in murder of EHT man
Posted by Jersey Shore Breaking News at Wednesday, September 24. 2008 and is filed under Current of Egg Harbor Township 
MAYS LANDING – An Atlantic County grand jury indicted a man Tuesday, Sept. 22 on murder and weapons charges in connection with the Jan. 1 stabbing death in Atlantic City of an Egg Harbor Township man, Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel announced.
Marco Jimenies-Garcia, 18, of Atlantic City allegedly stabbed Jose Edgardo Juarez at 6:39 a.m. on New Year’s Day.
Police responded to the call at 709 Warrena Road. When they arrived they found Omar Rojano, of Cape May County, holding his brother Juarez. Both men were bleeding profusely.
The two men were transported to the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Campus.
Juarez, 34, was pronounced dead at 7:19 a.m. from three stab wounds to the chest. One wound penetrated the heart, the others were to the liver and right lung.
Rojano, 29, sustained two stab wounds to the left shoulder and recovered, said Assistant Prosecutor Janet Gravitz, who presented the case to the grand jury.
A butcher knife, which was the alleged murder weapon, was recovered from a trashcan near the defendant’s home in the 500 block of Trenton Avenue in Atlantic City, Gravitz said.
No one has been charged with stabbing Rojano.
Anyone with information involving serious crimes is asked to call the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office at (609) 909-7800 or go to the Prosecutor’s Office website at www.acpo.org/tips.html and provide information by filling out the form anonymously on the Submit a Tip page.
People can also call Crime Stoppers at (609) 652-1234. Crime Stoppers offers cash rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those who commit crimes in Atlantic County.
Marco Jimenies-Garcia, 18, of Atlantic City allegedly stabbed Jose Edgardo Juarez at 6:39 a.m. on New Year’s Day.
Police responded to the call at 709 Warrena Road. When they arrived they found Omar Rojano, of Cape May County, holding his brother Juarez. Both men were bleeding profusely.
The two men were transported to the AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Campus.
Juarez, 34, was pronounced dead at 7:19 a.m. from three stab wounds to the chest. One wound penetrated the heart, the others were to the liver and right lung.
Rojano, 29, sustained two stab wounds to the left shoulder and recovered, said Assistant Prosecutor Janet Gravitz, who presented the case to the grand jury.
A butcher knife, which was the alleged murder weapon, was recovered from a trashcan near the defendant’s home in the 500 block of Trenton Avenue in Atlantic City, Gravitz said.
No one has been charged with stabbing Rojano.
Anyone with information involving serious crimes is asked to call the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office at (609) 909-7800 or go to the Prosecutor’s Office website at www.acpo.org/tips.html and provide information by filling out the form anonymously on the Submit a Tip page.
People can also call Crime Stoppers at (609) 652-1234. Crime Stoppers offers cash rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those who commit crimes in Atlantic County.
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