New Charges in W. Dept Stabbing

PRESS RELEASE
July 6, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Bernie Weisenfeld- PIO

Jacob Rodriguez (DOB 11/9/76), of the Red Bank Run apartment complex in West Deptford NJ today (7/6) was charged with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, stemming from a June 22 knife attack that critically injured his 26-year-old girlfriend, who is the mother of two children.

Rodriguez, who had an intermittent relationship with Brittany L. Hickman for about five years, had been living with her for about four weeks when the stabbing occurred in their apartment in the “R” building of the complex. After sustaining multiple wounds on her arms, legs and torso, she was able to reach the door of a neighbor’s unit before collapsing. Her five-year-old son and a two year-old daughter, who is also Rodriguez’ child, were in the couple’s apartment. They were not physically harmed. Hickman remains in Cooper Medical Center, Camden. She is no longer in the intensive care unit. The children were placed with a relative.

Rodriguez fled from the apartment and was arrested on attempted murder and weapons charges in Runnemede NJ the night of the stabbing. Today’s charges accuse him of endangering the children by leaving them “alone and unattended” after stabbing their mother, “leaving her incapacitated and unable to care” for them. Rodriguez remains in the Gloucester County Jail in default of $200.000 bail. He was denied a bail reduction last week, The bail now covers the endangering charges filed by the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office.