Police charged 28-year-old Robert Dietz, with third-degree aggravated assault, fourth-degree pointing a loaded firearm at another person, and fourth-degree possession of a high-capacity magazine, for shooting 65-year-old Robert Dietz Sr. on the 1900 block of Church Ave. yesterday According to Mark Spivey of the Union County Prosecutor’s Office. Diets was rushed to University Hospital in Newark where he was treated and released.
According to Mark Spivey, a search of the home resulted in the seizure of 92 firearms, where many of the seized weapons were legally owned and registered. The Scotch Plains PD and UCPO are investigating whether all of them were legally owned and registered.