Police on hunt for beer bottle attacker

By Greg Forester, Staff Writer
   MONTGOMERY — Township police and detectives from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office are on the hunt for a Montgomery man who disemboweled his roommate with a beer bottle following a dispute at a Camp Meeting Road residence Sunday evening.
   Following a heated argument, Nicolas Ortiz Espinoza, 40, stabbed roommate Artemio Medina in the stomach with the bottle and then fled in a pickup truck that was later found abandoned in Princeton Borough, police said.
   Mr. Medina was seriously injured in the attack, according to police, who said that emergency personnel responding to the initial 911 call found Mr. Medina collapsed on the rear patio of the township residence.
   Mr. Medina was bleeding profusely from his abdomen and Mr. Espinoza’s attack “effectively disemboweled Medina,” police reported.
   The victim was taken by helicopter to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick where he successfully underwent emergency surgery. Mr. Medina was listed as critical but stable on Monday.
   County Prosecutor Wayne Forrest and the township’s police director, Capt. Robert Palmer, request anyone with information on the attack to contact the prosecutor’s office at (908) 231-7100 or township police at (908) 359- 2222.