YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 19-year-old Garfield man hid in his Lodi girlfriend’s closet with a kitchen knife, then stabbed her ex-boyfriend several times in the chest — after which she was cut on the arm as she wrested the weapon from him, police said tonight.
Nicholas Damico hid himself because he’d discovered the ex was outside the woman’s Central Avenue house and was “looking to see who[m] she was now dating,” Lodi Police Capt. Donald Scorzetti told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
The ex-boyfriend found him just after 3 p.m., struggled with Damico and was stabbed, Scorzetti said.
“The girlfriend pulled the knife from [Damico] and cut herself on her right forearm,” he said.
Both victims were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center. The extent of their injuries wasn’t immediately known, Scorzetti said.
A pair of Lodi detectives found Damico walking in the area of a Burger King on Washington Street.
He “still had blood on him,” Scorzetti said.
Damico was ordered held on $15,000 bail, charged with aggravated assault and illegal weapons possession.
MUGSHOTS: Courtesy LODI PD
