Morristown suspect in slaying of immigrant spoke of racial harmony last summer

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Nigel Dumas, the Morristown teen accused of fatally beating a Salvadoran immigrant in Summit on July 17, told MorristownGreen.com last year that he was glad to see signs of racial harmony in Morristown.

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Nigel Dumas, 19, of Morristown, has been charged in connection with a fatal beating in Summit.

“It’s really good to see all kinds of people getting along,” he said at last summer’s Community Integration Festival, a multicultural event on the Morristown Green hosted by the Centro Biblico church.

Authorities have charged Nigel Dumas, 19, and two others with felony murder and robbery in the fatal beating of Abelino Mazariego, a 47-year-old dishwasher from Salvador.

The father of four was relaxing on the Summit Promenade after work when he was assaulted by at least three teens during a bungled robbery, according to Union County Prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow.

From the prosecutor’s web site:

At some point . . . the suspects teenagers entered the park and several of them began to speak with Mazariego and according to the investigation, several of the teenagers hatched a plan to steal cash and property from the victim.

According to the investigation, [suspect Khayri ]Williams-Clark stood behind the victim and held a white tee shirt over the victim’s head while the 17-year-old punched Mazariego with brutal force. Dumas then punched the victim a second time.

On Thursday, a 17-year-old and a 15-year-old also were charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and conspiracy to commit robbery, and robbery and aggravated assault, according to the prosecutor’s statement.

Nigel Dumas is being held on $300,000 bail. He was a Morristown High School student when he attended the Morristown festival last August.

Centro Biblico Pastor David Silva said he had no recollection of Nigel Dumas.

On that day last summer Nigel Dumas was accompanied by a friend from Summit, who said the festival was “making the community strong.”


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