A North Jersey man was stabbed to death outside a ShopRite grocery store in Newark on Monday night, cops said.
Rodney Mayes, a 56-year-old man from East Orange, was killed following an argument outside the store, NJ.com reported.
Authorities said Mayes and another man engaged in a “verbal dispute” in the parking lot of the store on Springfield Ave. around 7 p.m. when the other man pulled a knife and killed Mayes, according to RLS Media. Witnesses told police the suspect fled in a dark-colored vehicle with no one else inside, but no other details were publicly known.
Mayes was pronounced dead at the nearby University Hospital, NJ.com reported. The Essex County prosecutor’s office is leading the investigation.
The ShopRite opened in Newark in 2015, and its owners were publicly praised for opening the store when no other grocers operated in the area.
“Opening the Newark store presented opportunities for us to both expand our family business and make a significant impact in the community by increasing access to fresh and affordable food,” original owner Neil Greenstein told Produce Business magazine in February 2024.
However, Greenstein sold the store to Glass Gardens Inc., run by a local family, near the end of 2024.
