Dad crushed to death in Newark trying to stop carjacker: Police

A New Jersey family is grieving the loss of a father, who police say was killed by a carjacker in broad daylight Saturday afternoon.

John Aponte Alarcon, a 46-year-old delivery driver out of Elizabeth, was working in Newark over the weekend when a suspect jumped inside his car, Essex County prosecutors said.

Alarcon had left this car to deliver a package near Bergen Street and Hawthorne Avenue when the suspect made his move just before 1 p.m…

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