Overview
- Police responded to a 911 call around 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 1 and found the child with a stab wound to the chest at a home on Burke Lane in Brick Township, N.J.
- The boy was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune City, where he was listed in stable condition, according to prosecutors.
- Investigators from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Major Crime Unit, Brick Township Police Detective Bureau, and the Ocean County Sheriff’s CSI Unit identified the child’s sister as the suspect.
- Marlene Rodriguez, 20, was arrested at Brick Township Police Headquarters and booked into the Ocean County Jail, online records show.
- Rodriguez faces charges including attempted murder, unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and endangering the welfare of a child, and the investigation remains ongoing.