Chatham, Oct 26 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The church janitor Jose Feliciano is now charged with the murder of Chatham priest Rev. Ed Hinds. Police authorities arrested the church janitor on Saturday, alleging that he stabbed the cleric a whooping 32 times with a kitchen knife after arguing with him in the rectory.

Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said that, ”64-year-old Jose Feliciano of Easton was charged in the murder of the Rev. Ed Hinds, whose body was found Friday in the rectory kitchen of St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church in Chatham”.

“The pair got into an argument on Thursday evening, and it was during the altercation that Feliciano grabbed a knife and stabbed the 61-year-old Hinds multiple times”, Bianchi said.

Surprisingly, he has worked in the church for a long time for 17 years. His children also study at the church school. Bianchi said investigators found the priest’s cell phone, bloody clothing and bloody towels at Feliciano’s home in Easton, which tied him to this brutal crime.

Bianchi said Feliciano was one of two people who looked for Hinds after the priest failed to show up for 8 a.m. Mass on Friday. The pair found the body, and Bianchi said Feliciano was performing CPR on Hinds when police officers arrived and his half-hearted attempts at CPR seemed very artificial and struck the police as very suspicious.