FROM NEW YORK POST: Two teenage girls were mowed down and killed Monday in leafy Cranford, New Jersey, by a hit-and-run driver who had allegedly been stalking one of them.
The two 17-year-old Cranford High School students, Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas, were riding on an ebike together around 5:30 p.m. when a black 2021 Jeep with tinted windows rammed into them, according to authorities and local reports.
Both girls later died at the hospital.
A 17-year-old boy from Garwood — a small borough next door to Cranford — was arrested near the crash scene, and on Wednesday authorities said he was charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
The Union County Prosecutor’s Office has not named the suspect. According an associate of the victims, the accused killer was stalking one of the girls. She even took out a restraining order against him.
“She made complaints and nothing was done,” Tammy Carbajal, a friend of one of the victims, told CBS 2. “It’s just a tragedy. It’s just a tragedy.”
According to a neighbor, the suspect had been parking outside the girl’s house for three months/
“He was never stopped,” the neighbor told Fox 5.
It’s unclear which girl was the target.
Neighbors on the block where the girls lived allege the suspect had been fixated on one of them for months, watching her online and even parking outside her home. https://t.co/zY1k4rCklM
— FOX 5 NY (@fox5ny) October 1, 2025
Driver Who Fatally Ran Over Teen Girls Was Stalking 1 Of The Victims, Neighbors Say https://t.co/EBMNbvxujv
— People (@people) October 1, 2025
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