JERSEY CITY, NJ – One person has been charged for the murder of a 51-year-old Bayonne man in Jersey City last weekend.
According to a press release issued this week:
The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit and the Jersey City Police Department have made an arrest in connection with an assault that led to the death of a 51-year-old man.
At approximately 10:20 a.m. on Tuesday, August 2, 2022, members of the Jersey City Police Department responded to a call for a man who had been assaulted on Bergen Avenue between Myrtle and Bostwick Avenues.
Responding officers found an unresponsive man – later identified as Anthony Passero, 51, of Bayonne – on the ground. He was brought to Jersey City Medical Center, where he died of his injuries on Saturday, August 6, 2022 at approximately 12:40 a.m. The Regional Medical Examiner’s Officer determined the Cause of Death to be Blunt Force Trauma and the Manner of Death to be Homicide.
Robert Stevens, 40, of Union City, was arrested on Thursday, August 4, 2022 and charged with Aggravated Assault in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1b(1), a crime of the second degree, and Endangering an Injured Victim in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C: 12-1.2a, a crime of the third degree. Following the determination of the Regional Medical Examiner’s Office, Stevens was additionally charged with Manslaughter in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:11-4b(1), a crime of the second degree. He has been held at the Hudson County Correctional Facility since his arrest and made his first appearance on the upgraded charge on Thursday, August 18, 2022.