Osvaldo Rivera has been identified as the man responsible for the stabbing death of 6-year-old Dominick Andujor in a Sunday morning attack in New Jersey. Rivera was high on PCP.
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Dominik’s throat was slashed while trying to save his sister, coming to her aid as she was being assaulted on the floor by Rivera, according to prosecutors.
As reported by ABC News:
Rivera, who is charged in Sunday’s middle-of-the-night attack, sobbed during an appearance Tuesday in court.
During an interrogation, Rivera had asked: “How bad did I hurt them?” assistant prosecutor Christine Shah said during the hearing.
The attack early Sunday was the second time in less than two weeks that prosecutors say a Camden resident apparently high on PCP had killed a child.
On Aug. 22, a Camden woman decapitated her 2-year-old son, called 911 to admit stabbing the child, then killed herself.
Authorities said they are going to test PCP on the street to see what might be behind the outbursts of violence. The drug can make users hallucinatory and incoherent, police said.
31-year-old Rivera admitted he smoked “wet,” a combination of marijuana and PCP, before the killing, police said. In the decapitation case, authorities said that preliminary tests showed the woman had PCP in her system and that they believed she had also smoked wet.
Dominick’s sister, Amber, whose windpipe had been slashed but whose condition was upgraded from critical to stable, ran out of the house and sought help after her brother intervened, knocking on neighbors doors for them to alert the police.
As for Rivera, his bail was set at $5 million.
SOURCE: ABC News
