Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey announced that a Family Court judge ruled today that a teenager will be tried as an adult for fatally stabbing a 23-year-old woman in a New Brunswick apartment last month.
Jason Molina, 16, of Bridgewater was charged with murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose in the death of Christine Huh, a resident of the Somerset section of Franklin Township.
Molina, who initially was taken into custody and charged with juvenile delinquency in connection with the homicide, was charged with murder and the weapons offense after Superior Court Judge James F. Hyland, sitting in Family Court in New Brunswick, determined the defendant may be tried as an adult.
Bail was set at $1 million for Molina, who remains in custody at the Middlesex County Youth Detention Center.
Molina was taken into custody on May 10, several hours after members of the New Brunswick Police Department were dispatched to a ninth-floor apartment at 60 Paterson Street, where they found the victim.
She was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where she was pronounced dead at 3:50 a.m.
An investigation by Detective Raymond Quick of the New Brunswick Police Department and Detective Wayne Canastra of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office determined the victim was visiting the defendant at the apartment when she was attacked.
The investigation is active and is continuing. Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Quick of the New Brunswick Police Department at (732) 745-5217, or Detective Canastra of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at (732) 745-3809.