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A registered intercourse offender who was working as a DJ in New Jersey is accused of stabbing his fiancée to loss of life a day after he publicly proposed to her in a video shared on Facebook.
Jose Melo, 52, was charged with first-degree homicide after Naket Jadix Trinidad Maldonado, 31, was discovered useless at a house on Florida Street in Elizabeth on Monday morning, in line with the Union County Prosecutor’s Office.
A day earlier than the slaying, Melo posted a video to his Facebook web page on December 29 that confirmed him getting on one knee and proposing to Maldonado as he’s heard telling her “Te amo,” which is Spanish for “I love you.”
A visibly shocked Maldonado lined her mouth together with her hand earlier than taking the ring and hugging and kissing Melo as the group round them cheered.
The music Casate Conmigo (“Marry Me”) by Silvestre Dangond and Nicky Jam might be heard enjoying within the background on the Bamboleo Night Club through the proposal, in line with Storyful.
In the caption on the Facebook video of the proposal, he wrote: “I love you baby.”
The subsequent day, Maldonado was useless.
It’s unknown how lengthy the couple had been relationship. A motive for the killing stays unclear.
Aside from first-degree homicide, Melo was additionally charged with one depend of third-degree possession of a weapon for an illegal function, and one depend of fourth-degree illegal possession of a weapon, information present.
Melo, professionally generally known as DJ Melo, had beforehand been arrested in 2010, when he allegedly threatened a lady with a field cutter and sexually assaulted her, in line with NJ 101.5. He was then pressured to register as a intercourse offender.
Maldonado’s heartbroken household created a GoFundMe web page the place her aunt described her as a mother-of-two. It defined that Maldonado didn’t have many family in New Jersey, apart from herself, however that her household in Florida are “doing all they can.”
“Naky was senselessly taken from us on December 30 in an act of evil,” her aunt wrote.
“This horrible act by someone she trusted left her two children without either parent and with very little options for their future.”
The aunt additionally wrote in an up to date publish that Maldonado’s daughters are being taken care of and that everlasting preparations are being labored out.
Funeral companies will probably be held for Maldonado in Florida and she or he will probably be buried at her household’s house in Puerto Rico.
As of Tuesday morning, almost $28,000 had been raised for the household.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/new-jersey-murder-fiancee-proposal-video-b2675271.html