By Associated Press - Thursday, May 15, 2014

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Authorities have arrested a Union Township man on charges stemming from the robbery and killing of an 83-year-old man in Newark.

Authorities say 22-year-old Rashid Davis has a relative who lives in the Nevada Street apartment building where 83-year-old Leonard Pearson was found beaten and stabbed to death on Saturday.

Davis also is charged in a separate robbery in the same building that left two people injured last Thursday.



He’s held on $1 million bail.

It’s not known if Davis has a lawyer.

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