Members of the Mercer County Homicide Task Force arrested the teen at a relative's home in Newark Thursday night. Watch video
TRENTON -- Detectives have charged a 15-year-old from Newark with the fatal knifing of a man in Trenton's Chambersburg neighborhood last month, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office said.
Members of the Mercer County Homicide Task Force arrested the teen at a relative's home in Newark Thursday night.
He is charged with murder, felony murder, robbery and weapon possession charges, the office said in a statement. He was not identified because he is a juvenile.
Authorities allege the teen attacked and stabbed Carlos Leiva-Oviedo, 27, on June 14.
Trenton police officers responding to a report of a man bleeding at Hudson and Genesee streets at 3 a.m. that night found Leiva-Oviedo bloodied in the street, collapsed near his car.
He died about four hours later at a Trenton hospital from multiple stab wounds and related injuries from a vicious beating, police said.
Last week, the prosecutor's office released surveillance footage of two males they were seeking in connection with the killing.
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A prosecutor's office spokeswoman declined to discuss if any other suspects were being sought, or if the suspect was in the footage.
Acting Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri did express gratitude to local media for publishing the footage, saying helpful leads were called in to investigators.
"This is a case that would not have been solved without all of the pieces: methodical, perseverant police work, help from the media, and the public doing their part by contactingthe authorities with information," Onofri said.
"When we work together, justice is served," the prosecutor said.
The teen is being held at the Middlesex County Youth Detention Center in North Brunswick.
Task force Detective Roberto Reyes is the lead investigator on the case. The Newark Police Department and the Essex County Homicide Task Force assisted the Mercer investigators Thursday night.
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