Montclair Man Who Stabbed Girlfriend To Death Still At Large: PD – Montclair, NJ Patch

MONTCLAIR, NJ — A police search for a stabbing suspect is underway in Montclair after the township’s second domestic violence-related fatality in a month.

On Thursday, Nov. 29, authorities announced that police are searching for Kenneth Jones, a Montclair resident who allegedly stabbed his girlfriend, Tameeka Johnson, 41, to death inside their shared home on Greenwood Avenue.

Montclair police discovered Johnson inside her home on Nov. 12, according to a joint statement from Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens and Montclair Police Chief Todd Conforti.

Jones fled the scene before police arrived. He remains at large, police said Thursday.

Authorities have charged Jones with murder and weapons offenses. A police investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force tips line at 1-877-846-7432 or 1-877-TIPS-4EC.

About three weeks before Johnson’s body was discovered, a New Jersey lawyer, James R. Ray III, 55, allegedly killed his girlfriend, Angela M. Bledsoe, 44, in their home on North Mountain Avenue in Montclair.

The pair lived together and had a child, authorities said.

Following the shooting, police launched a search for Ray, an attorney, who was apprehended in Cuba earlier this month. He was returned to New Jersey on Nov. 6 to face murder and weapons charges for allegedly killing Bledsoe, and has since claimed that the shooting happened in self-defense.

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