{"id":81217,"date":"2025-12-26T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81217\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T01:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T01:00:06","slug":"nj-man-charged-with-murder-in-deadly-crossbow-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/81217\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ man charged with murder in deadly crossbow attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

A New Jersey man is now in custody after allegedly killing a man with a crossbow<\/a> and barricading himself inside a home, triggering an hours-long standoff with law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Pablo Criollo was in Kearny Saturday night, walking home for dinner, when an arrow suddenly pierced him in the back around 6:45 p.m., the Hudson County Prosecutor\u2019s Office said. Video of the seemingly random attack<\/a>, which was obtained by NBC 4, shows 45-year-old Criollo stumbling, and then falling to the sidewalk shortly after he is hit. He was rushed to a University Hospital in Newark, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are completely shattered by this act of violence,\u201d his family wrote in a GoFundMe set up after the incident. \u201cPablo came from Ecuador at the age of 16 to start a new life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oscar Feijoo has since been charged in connection with the deadly violence. He\u2019s facing counts including<\/a> first-degree murder, first-degree aggravated arson and second- and fourth-degree weapons offenses. When he was initially approached by authorities on Sunday, he barricaded himself inside his home, prompting a response from the Hudson County Regional SWAT team, the prosecutor\u2019s office said. Several fires were ignited inside the residence at about 5 a.m., but he did not emerge from the home until later in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

By then, he was covered in ash and armed, the prosecutor\u2019s office said. He was arrested around 1 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New Jersey man is now in custody after allegedly killing a man with a crossbow and barricading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[266,85,607,9,11,10,12],"class_list":["post-81217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-national-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}