Maplewood police try to calm nerves after crime spike

MAPLEWOOD, N.J.

In the last week, two people were murdered and a church worker was assaulted in the /*Essex County*/ town of /*Maplewood*/.

In the case of the murders, Dwayne Flourney is now charged with stabbing his father and grandmother to death.

On the same day he was arrested, a woman working at St. Joseph's Church was beaten by a man trying to rob the rectory.

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