Man Arrested After Stabbing His Old Classmate Over 37 Times Killing Her
A New Jersey man charged with stabbing a 27-year-old woman to death last week allegedly had a manifesto in his apartment “laying out a step-by-step” plan to kill her, according to reports.
Investigators also found blood in the entrance and bathroom of David C. Shroitman’s apartment, and his car “doused in bleach” prior to arresting him and charging him with murder, authorities said in an affidavit of probable cause filed in support of the charges.
Police identified Shroitman as a suspect in the killing of Maryrose Fealey “by word of mouth” after the 27-year-old woman was found stabbed to death Tuesday outside her residence on North Bridge Street, authorities said. The Somerville woman was returning home from a business in Bridgewater that wasn’t named when she was killed.
Fealey was found stabbed to death around 10:20 p.m. by a relative. Her car door was open and some of her belongings were strewn across the front yard, authorities said.
On Thursday, police obtained surveillance footage that showed a man matching Shroitman’s description wearing a gray sweatshirt, a black face gaiter and cushioned sneakers standing at the corner of North Bridge and Cliff streets at about 9 p.m., authorities said.
The next day, investigators found Shroitman at a business in Bridgewater, but he wouldn’t speak to them.
Detectives saw a white garbage bag over the driver’s seat of his car. A black gaiter was in the front seat and duct tape in the rear seat, authorities said.
The break in the case came Sunday, when authorities got surveillance footage from a home on East Cliff Street showing a man matching Shroitman’s description running up and down East Cliff Street at about 9 p.m. on the night Fealey was killed, authorities said.
The man then ran out of view of the camera a short time before a vehicle that resembled his traveled along East Cliff Street, authorities said.
On Sunday, Somerville police were called to a business and found Shroitman wearing clear latex gloves cleaning his car, authorities said. Officers said they smelled bleach in a puddle near the driver’s side of the vehicle.
Minutes later, police found a discarded latex glove that had blood on it along East Cliff Street, authorities said.
When investigators got a search warrant and entered Shroitman’s Brookside Avenue apartment they found the clothes matching those worn by the man on the surveillance footage in addition to the manifesto.
Some of the clothing was covered in bleach. His car was also “doused in bleach,” authorities said.
Shroitman is also charged tampering with evidence, hindering apprehension and a weapons offense. An attorney wasn’t listed for him on Monday afternoon.
© Copyright RawNews1st
