Two men pleaded guilty to the brutal machete slaying of a man found dead in the middle of a quiet New Jersey street nearly three years ago, prosecutors announced Sunday.
The uncle and nephew from Lakewood each face the possibility of two decades behind bars for the slaying of Domingo Merino-Rafael, prosecutors said
The Monmouth County prosecutor's office said Omar Rivera-Rojas, 32, and Alberto Rojas-Hernandez, 20, admitted to killing the man found on Howell's Hurley Pond Road in Oct. 2019 following a fight that broke out between the three men. Both Lakewood men pled guilty to aggravated manslaughter before a judge in Monmouth County on Friday, and will face a sentencing hearing next March. Contact information for their lawyers was not immediately known.
Domingo Merino-Rafael, a 33-year-old man also from Lakewood, was discovered around 3 a.m. Oct. 18, 2019, by a person passing through the area. The man was found dead, laying face down with significant head trauma.
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