Kimberly Cintron, 26, of Jersey City, is charged with stabbing the victim inside a Communipaw Avenue apartment with a kitchen knife.
JERSEY CITY -- An instructor at a Newark arts school has been charged with stabbing a man multiple times in the head and neck on Christmas, authorities said.
Kimberly Cintron, 26, of Jersey City, is charged with stabbing the victim inside a Communipaw Avenue apartment with a kitchen knife. Cintron is an instructor at the Newark School of the Arts, a private school where lessons are offered in an array of performing arts.
Just after midnight Thursday, police arrived at the building and Cintron was downstairs crying with the victim's blood on her pants, according to a police report.
Officers asked Cintron if she was injured and she said "no, but the other guy is upstairs," the report states.
When officers went up to the apartment, they found the victim with multiple stab wounds to his neck and head next to a large pool of blood and kitchen knife with a black handle, police said.
The victim told police he and Cintron had a argument when she struck him in the face with a closed fist. The man grabbed the woman's hands to stop her from hitting him, when she broke free and grabbed the knife, the report stated.
He was treated at Jersey City Medical Center-Barnabas Health with nonlife-threatening injuries, police said.
Yesterday afternoon, Cintron appeared in Central Judicial Procession court via video link from Hudson County jail. During the hearing, it was revealed Cintron is an instructor at Newark School of the Arts.
According to the school's website, Cintron works "with inner city children as an assistant art teacher/mentor for the Rutgers Future Scholars Program as well as an independently contracted after-school arts enrichment teacher for elementary school children in the Essex County area."
Representatives from the school could not be reached for comment.
She is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, possession of a weapon with unlawful purpose, and unlawful possession of a weapon.
Judge Margaret Marley set bail at $30,000 with a 10 percent cash option.
