{"id":8914,"date":"2023-05-01T18:24:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T22:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=8914"},"modified":"2023-05-01T18:24:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T22:24:40","slug":"toms-river-woman-cops-plea-for-killing-boyfriend-prosecutors-seeking-7-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2023\/05\/toms-river-woman-cops-plea-for-killing-boyfriend-prosecutors-seeking-7-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms River Woman Cops Plea for Killing Boyfriend, Prosecutors Seeking 7 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5036\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Massimino.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"Samantha Massimino (Photo: Ocean County Jail)\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"Samantha Massimino (Photo: Ocean County Jail)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5036\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5036\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Massimino.jpg\" alt=\"Samantha Massimino (Photo: Ocean County Jail)\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Massimino.jpg 480w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Massimino-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samantha Massimino (Photo: Ocean County Jail)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Toms River woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death during a domestic dispute in 2020 has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in his death, with prosecutors announcing they will seek a seven-year prison term for the 36-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Massimino stabbed her boyfriend, Reinaldo Feliciano, Jr., 35, also of Toms River, in the early morning hours of October 24, 2020, according to authorities. Police received a call at about 4 a.m. reporting the incident, \u201cin reference to a male victim having been stabbed,\u201d prosecutors said in a statement. Feliciano had been stabbed in the leg, the caller stated.<\/p>\n<p>Township police and county investigators, piecing together the details of the case, found Massimino and Feliciano, who had previously been in a dating relationship, became involved in a physical altercation at a residence. During the course of the argument, Massimino \u201cretrieved a knife and ultimately stabbed Mr. Feliciano in the leg,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Feliciano was transported to Community Medical Center where he succumbed to his injuries at approximately 4:45 a.m. Massimino was taken into custody at the scene and transported to the Ocean County Jail, where she has been lodged since her arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Massimino is due to the be sentenced July 7 before Superior Court Judge Guy P. Ryan. Prosecutors will be seeking seven years in state prison, of which Massimino will be required to serve 85 percent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2023\/05\/toms-river-woman-cops-plea-for-killing-boyfriend-prosecutors-seeking-7-years\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Toms River woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death during a domestic dispute in 2020 has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in his death, with prosecutors announcing they will seek a seven-year prison term for the 36-year-old. Samantha Massimino stabbed her boyfriend, Reinaldo Feliciano, Jr., 35, also of Toms River, in the early morning hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1080,14,1129,1128,1784],"class_list":["post-8914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-featured","tag-manslaughter","tag-reinaldo-feliciano","tag-samantha-massimino","tag-stabing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Massimino.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}