Newark resident Julius Gaines, 56, has been charged with murder and weapons offenses in connection with the fatal stabbing of East Orange resident Rodney Mayes, 56. The killing occurred in the ShopRite parking lot at 206 Springfield Avenue, after a verbal dispute between the individuals Monday evening, according to officials.

Police are investigating after a man was fatally stabbed during an argument in the parking lot of a ShopRite in New Jersey Monday night.

A North Jersey man was stabbed to death outside a ShopRite grocery store in Newark on Monday night, cops said. Rodney Mayes, a 56-year-old man from East Orange, was killed following an argument outside the store, NJ.com reported.

A fatal stabbing took place in the parking lot of a ShopRite supermarket in Essex County on Monday night, authorities say. The stabbing – which took place in Newark – claimed the life of an East Orange resident,

The 56-year-old was in a verbal dispute with another man before he was stabbed outside the ShopRite, prosecutors said.