Newark – Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Maplewood Police Chief Robert Cimino announced today that the Maplewood Police Department and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force are investigating a homicide.
Authorities said at approximately 2:30 a.m. today Wesley Reason, 53, of Maplewood sustained fatal injuries when he was assaulted in his Broadview Avenue home.
Authorities pronounced reason dead at 3:08 a.m.
The preliminary cause of death is blunt force trauma.
No arrests have been made at this time.