Accused killer stalker sent pizza & porn: Threatened NJ teen over Charlie Kirk
Dan AlexanderPublished: October 3, 2025Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas, the two friends killed by a Jeep in Cranford on Sept. 29, 2025. (via GoFundMe)
🚨Cranford teen accused of ramming Jeep into e-bike, killing two 17-year-old girls
🎥Disturbing YouTube live stream shows suspect mocking and taunting victim’s family
⚖️Teen linked victims to Charlie Kirk comments and prank pizza harassment
CRANFORD — Days before mowing down two 17-year-olds on the street, the accused teen killer revealed on a YouTube livestream that he had been tormenting one of his teen victims — in part, he says, because she laughed at the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The 17-year-old suspect from Garwood — a son of a retired police officer and the nephew of the Westfield police chief — was charged Wednesday with the first-degree murders of Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas.
Relatives of Niiotis said the teen had been stalking her for months — something the teen suspect acknowledged on livestreams of his MLB co-op games, which attracted thousands of followers on TikTok.
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The teen suspect rammed the girls’ e-bike with his Jeep, which police believe was traveling 70 mph on a 25 mph residential street on Monday.
Because he is currently being charged as a juvenile, the Union County Prosecutor’s Office has not addressed the allegations in detail or named him publicly.
🎥 YouTube livestream reveals taunts and threats
The video where he addresses the stalking and Charlie Kirk was just one of several that remain online, where he appears to have spent enough time to amass a significant base of followers and develop a familiarity with current events and online figures such as the misogynist influencer Andrew Tate, whose human trafficking and rape prosecution the suspect was following when he was just 15 years old.
According to NJ.com’s reporting, the suspect also compared himself to former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer, who the teen said was the victim of a woman making up “ridiculous allegations” of sexual assault, which never resulted in criminal charges.
New Jersey 101.5 first reported on the day of his murder charge arrest that the suspect went live on YouTube hours after the day of the crash. The gamer told a live YouTube audience of more than 200 people that there is “more to the story that you are not getting.” The teen briefly expresses condolences to the two victims but spends most of the 22 minutes lamenting the bullying and unspecified threats that he and his family have received.
“Making threats against my family will not be tolerated,” the teen says in the video, which was supposed to be a live stream of a co-op MLB video game with a friend.
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YouTube live stream reveals disturbing comments about victims
Days before the deadly crash, while hosting an online baseball game live-streamed on YouTube on Sept. 23, the suspect talks about sending a pizza to “Maria’s house” by using his old iPhone as a burner because his number had been blocked. The suspect says he will order the pizza for cash on delivery.
“I think Maria’s hungry. I think we’re going to send her two pizzas. So you all know I have a vengeance against this girl for accusing me of sending porn and s**t. I’m going to call a pizza to her house.”
He also says Maria’s mother has a “stupid f**kin’ name and accused her of reporting the porn.
“So Fouli, you made a bad decision making a bad name of myself. You made a bad decision having this girl return to that school without me being there,” the teen says on the video, referencing the girl’s mother.
Someone watching the stream suggests he go to the house and watch the pizza be delivered. He rejected the idea because the mother called the police before.
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Teen referenced Charlie Kirk and mocked victim’s family
While still live on YouTube, it appears that the teen’s parent calls him on the phone to ask about the pizza delivery.
“I’ll tell you what,” the teen says to the caller. “Your daughter should have said sorry for accusing me of doing a heinous crime. Shoulda have said sorry.”
He continues talking to the audience about the police report, revealing that the victims believed he lived in Westfield.
“Think again. My cousin works for Westfield. My uncle is her boss, OK? I get to sit here and play Rankings,” he says.
In a clip from the same video, which has been posted on X, he accuses Maria of making fun of conservative speaker Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated by a gunman on Sept. 10.
“Hey, whenever Maria sees the pizza guy come, better think of Charlie Kirk for making fun of his f**king death. Stupid ass clown. Just remember that,” the teen says. “She made fun of Charlie Kirk’s death on TikTok on a repost. Maybe her mother should monitor her social media activity.”
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Biggest NJ company layoffs announced in 2025
In the first quarter of 2025 alone, roughly a dozen New Jersey employers announced over 3,000 layoffs. By September, the number of layoffs announced was creeping toward 10,000.
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Novo Nordisk (Plainsboro)
811 layoffs
Announced: September, October
Effective: End of December 2025
In September, Novo Nordisk announced a company-wide “transformation” that includes 9,000 layoffs to its global workforce, with more than half in Denmark.
Novo Nordisk U.S. is headquartered in Plainsboro, with more than 10,000 employees at 12 locations nationwide.
Shortly after, the company — best known for making injectable medications to manage obesity and diabetes — announced it would layoff 265 based in Plainsboro.
Three weeks later, that number had tripled, listed with state labor officials as 811 layoffs based in Plainsboro.
(Google Maps, Bristol Myers Squibb, Townsquare Media)
Bristol Myers Squibb (Lawrence)
1,156 layoffs
Announced: February, May, June, September
Effective: rolling basis between 4/24/25 and 3/27/26
The pharmaceutical giant announced two rounds of cuts in February for staff based out of its Lawrence facility, totaling 290.
In May, Bristol Myers Squibb announced another 516 layoffs, rolling into next year. Followed by another 68 in June, to take effect by January 2026.
A fifth round for the year was announced in September, 282 cuts based in Lawrence Township, effective through March 2026.
These follow cuts in 2024, when Bristol Myers Squibb made a total of 1,262 layoffs in a similar series of announcements.
(Google Maps)
Rite Aid (various locations)
1,122 layoffs
Announced: May
Effective: On rolling basis, starting in June
The struggling pharmacy chain announced in May that 1,122 workers at locations statewide would be laid off on a rolling basis. The same month, Rite Aid announced 16 NJ stores would be closed as part of overall Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings.
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Illinois student smiles, giggles after killing couple in DUI crash: video
By Rebecca Rosenberg
Published May 5, 2023 3:21pm EDT
Bodycam video shows Illinois drunken driver grinning, joking moments after she killed two people
Stephanie Melgoza, who was four weeks shy of graduating college at the time of the tragic collision, was sentenced to 14 years in prison last week.
CHICAGO – An Illinois woman who giggled and smiled after she killed two people in a 2022 drunk driving crash was sentenced to 14 years in prison last week.
In disturbing police body camera video obtained by Fox News Digital, Stephanie Melgoza, 24, can be seen singing and smiling after the tragic collision.
Melgoza, whose blood alcohol level registered at .264 — more than three times the legal limit — showed no concern when an officer told her that she had fatally struck Paul Prowant, 55, and his girlfriend, 43-year-old Andrea Rosewicz.
A still shot from body camera footage shows Stephanie Melgoza, left, laughing during a field sobriety test minutes after drunkenly killing Andrew Rosewicz and Paul Prowant with her car in Illinois. (East Peoria Police Department/ Dignity Memorial)
At the hospital, East Peoria Officer Jeffrey Bieber appeared to grow frustrated after Melgoza repeatedly told him she had to go to school the next day.
“You want me to be honest with you. You’re going to jail. You don’t have a bond. You killed two people tonight. I don’t think you understand that,” Bieber snapped at Melgoza, who was sitting in a hospital bed, after the April 10, 2022, crash.
The former Bradley University student stared blankly and then asked whether she would make her night class later that week.
Video captures gut-wrenching moment Illinois student giggles after being told she just killed couple
Stephanie Melgoza, who was four weeks shy of graduating college at the time of the tragic collision, was sentenced to 14 years in prison last week.
“Did you understand what I told you, that you killed two people tonight?” Bieber asked.
“Yes, I’m just wondering when I can go to school,” she replied nonchalantly.
“You’re on body camera being completely careless about killing two people tonight. You could care less. That’s sad and pathetic and horrible all at the same time,” Bieber told her.
“You’re on body camera being completely careless about killing two people tonight. You could care less. That’s sad and pathetic and horrible all at the same time.”— East Peoria Police Officer Jeffrey Bieber told Stephanie Melgoza
“Can you say that as a cop?” Melgoza asked.
Yes, ma’am, I can,” he replied.
As the officer waited with Melgoza for a nurse to perform a DUI kit, she danced and sang in the hospital room and talked excitedly about an upcoming trip to Las Vegas for her birthday.
Video shows Illinois woman laughing, giggling minutes after killing couple in DUI crash
Stephanie Melgoza, who was four weeks shy of graduating college at the time of the tragic collision, was sentenced to 14 years in prison last week.
“It’s going to be so fun,” she gushed. “I’m going to start off with two Long Islands.”
“You haven’t had enough of drinking already?” asked the officer.
“We’re talking about Vegas. There is no limit in Vegas, right?” she said, laughing.
The student also told him that she couldn’t wait to join the “DUI Club” and asked for her phone, so she could text all her co-workers since, she said, they all have had DUIs, according to the police report.
Stephanie Melgoza smirks in body camera video minutes after she killed two people with her red Dodge Dart. (East Peoria Police Department)
Earlier that night, Melgoza called 911 after hitting the couple outside the bar Full Throttle at around 10 p.m.
Officers who responded to the gruesome scene found her red Dodge Dart totaled with a severed leg “sticking out of the grill,” a police report says.
Melgoza watched without emotion as first responders vainly tried to resuscitate the victims.
Stephanie Melgozas booking photo, left, and a still from body camera footage showing her laughing and giggling during a field sobriety test after killing two people in a DUI crash. (East Peoria Police Department)
She told officers that she had downed three vodka drinks and had been “just getting her night started” when she hit the victims outside Full Throttle.
There was an open handle of Tito’s vodka on the floor of her car, according to the police report.
“I graduate in four weeks — is this going to affect anything?” she asked an officer at the crime scene.
Stephanie Melgoza had a blood alcohol level of .264 — three times the legal limit — minutes after she killed a couple with her car in Illinois. She is shown taking a breathalyzer test. (East Peoria Police Department)
Melgoza pleaded guilty in February to two counts each of aggravated DUI and aggravated reckless driving.
At her sentencing, she apologized. “I’m so sorry for everything, and I will never, ever commit anything like that again,” she told the court, according to the Pekin Daily Times. “I have not drank since that day. I do not plan on drinking ever again.”
Haley Chi-Sing contributed to this report.
