the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Dumont NJ, At approximately 12:20 a.m. on Tuesday, June 16, 2020, the Dumont Police Department received reports that a 5-year-old child was wandering unattended in the area of an apartment complex at 310 Knickerbocker Road in Dumont. Responding officers learned that the child’s mother lived in the complex. The child’s aunt reported that her sister, the child’s 36-year-old mother, was not answering her phone. Officers entered the mother’s apartment where they discovered her dead body. The victim had been stabbed in the neck.
Soon thereafter, Closter Police located the victim’s 36-year-old boyfriend walking in Closter with the victim’s two other children, ages 18 months and 6 months. The boyfriend was taken into custody but has not yet been charged.
An investigation is being conducted by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Unit under the direction of Chief Robert Anzilotti, the Dumont Police Department under the direction of Chief Michael Conner, and the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office under the direction of Sheriff Anthony Cureton. No additional information is available at this time, but a formal statement will be issued later today.
