NJ mom has heart attack, dies, after intervening in fight between son and his girlfriend
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}(Bergen County Prosecutor's Office)
A New Jersey mother’s decision to intervene Monday in a physical fight between her son and his girlfriend turned fatal.
Authorities say that Ana Rojas-Jovel, 45, tried to separate her son, 28-year-old Juan Martinez Rojas, and his girlfriend, 25-year-old Claudia Hernandez Soriano, when they started fighting after returning home from a party.
Police said that Hernandez Soriano, described by the online news site Cliffview Pilot as a Salvadoran immigrant, assaulted her boyfriend's mother, who then went into cardiac arrest and died.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Hernandez Soriano is charged with reckless manslaughter.
Martinez Rojas is charged with child endangerment relating to the fact that the fight broke out in front of a child, according to the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. The Cliffview Pilot said the 7-year-old was the couple’s child.
The Cliffview Pilot quoted quoted the county prosecutor as saying that the girlfriend “concealed items of evidence [that] were later found during a search of the crime scene.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Hernandez Soriano was held on $250,000 bail in the Bergen County Jail on various charges. Her boyfriend was being held on $75,000 bail on assault and child endangerment charges.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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