Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey and Chief Raymond Hayducka of the South Brunswick Police Department announced today that police have arrested a New Brunswick man and charged him with fatally shooting a 24-year-old woman in the township.
Giver J. Vasquez, 25, who was traced to the home of an acquaintance of his in New Hope, Pa., was charged with murder, stalking, possession of a weapon and unlawful possession of a weapon in the death of Alicia Martinez-Izaguirr of New Brunswick.
Bail was set in New Jersey at $2 million for Vasquez, a New Brunswick resident who currently is being held at the Bucks County Correctional Facility in Doylestown, Pa. He is awaiting extradition, but it was not immediately known when he will be returned to New Jersey.
The defendant was arrested in New Hope at about 8 p.m. on June 25, 2015 during an intensive investigation by Detective Monica Shearer of the South Brunswick Police Department and Detective Craig Marchak of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.
The investigation determined that the victim was approached at approximately 7 a.m. on June 24, 2015 by Vasquez, who had followed the woman to the parking lot of a company on Docks Corner Road in South Brunswick, shot her, and fled.
The investigation further showed the defendant borrowed a 2004 silver Volkswagen Passat from one of his friends, used the vehicle to follow the victim, and fled in the borrowed car, which later was abandoned.
Police also determined that the victim and defendant knew each other and that the shooting was not a random act.
Anyone with information on the case, or anyone who may have seen the Volkswagen Passat, is asked to call Detective Shearer of the South Brunswick Police Department at (732) 329-4646, or Detective Marchak of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at (732) 745-3254.