Dispute at NJ Home Leaves Three Seriously Injured

Prosecutors say three members of a northwestern New Jersey family were critically injured in a violent dispute at the family home.

But it was not immediately clear what sparked Wednesday morning's incident in Bloomsbury.

Hunterdon County Prosecutor Anthony Kearns III says state police responded to the home shortly before 7 a.m., after a 911 caller reported a woman and her adult daughter were lying injured on the home's front lawn. The troopers were confronted by the woman's 48-year-old husband, who was armed with a blunt object and inflicting injuries upon himself.

The troopers soon subdued the man, who was flown to a hospital along with his daughter, while his wife was taken to another hospital. All three victims had life-threatening injuries, and the husband and wife were undergoing surgery.

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