Man Admits Fatally Stabbing Security Guard and Firefighter During New Jersey Street Fight
Monmouth County NJ Aug 5 2019
A man who fatally stabbed a security guard was also avolunteer firefighter during a street confrontation last year is now headed to state prison.
Demar Reevey received a 13-year sentence Friday.
He had pleaded guilty in May to aggravated manslaughter.
Monmouth County prosecutors have said the 24-year-old Red Bank man and 26-year-old Andrew Hill had been feuding over Reevey’s girlfriend.
The dispute culminated on May 27, when Reevey stabbed Hill once during a fight in Red Bank.
Reevey’s public defender has said the two men were friends and that Reevey did not mean to hurt him.
Hill worked as a hospital security officer but also was a volunteer with the Sea Bright Fire Department and the Red Bank First Aid Squad.