Man charged with Belleville stabbing attack was identified by his child, records say – NorthJersey.com

The Newark man charged with stabbing a woman in Belleville last month was identified by his child in a statement to police, records show.

Termaine Pines, 48, of Newark, was arrested Sunday at a Trenton homeless shelter. He was charged with attempted murder, burglary, aggravated assault and weapons offenses, related to a home invasion and bloody attack on Nov. 20 in a Van Rensselaer Street home. 

The victim, a 54-year-old woman who lived in the building with her mother, arrived at the house and allegedly found Pines inside. He attacked her, leaving her bloodied and calling for help as he fled, prosecutors have said. The mother was found dead inside the house. A medical examiner has not yet determined the manner and cause of the older woman’s death.

In a statement given to detectives one week after the incident, the child identified Pines in a surveillance video still, according to the affidavit of probable cause. The child also confirmed that Pines was their father. 

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On the day of the stabbing, when officers responded to the victim’s apartment, they found her a block away on Howard Place, bloodied from the attack and she warned them her mother may still be inside the apartment.

Police entered to find her 84-year-old mother unresponsive inside a bedroom. She was declared dead at the scene.

Surveillance video captured a dark sedan, which was later identified as Pines’, parked nearby on Cleveland Street, police said in the affidavit. Video also showed Pines walking toward the Van Rensselaer home an hour before the incident, though footage captured by camera across the street did not show Pines walking past the address, according to the affidavit.

Pines remains in custody pending his first appearance in court. Currently he is only facing charges for the attack on the daughter as prosecutor’s await the cause of death of the 84-year-old mother.

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