‘Horrifying’: Freehold teen charged in separate stroller attack and Thanksgiving stabbing Dan Alexander Published: December 3, 2025 Jaden Thompson during an inident on Pinewood Road in Howell on Nov. 17, 2025, Ocean County Jail booking photo (Howell police/Ocean County Jail)

🚨 A Freehold teen faces two separate sets of charges in Howell and Jackson

🚨 Jaden Thompson is charged in attack on mom while she pushed her son in a stroller

🚨 He fled a Jackson stabbing only to be picked up in Edison

HOWELL — A man charged in the attempted murder of a woman has not been connected to another violent incident in which he choked a woman who was pushing a toddler in a stroller.

Jaden Thompson, 18, of Freehold Township , approached a woman from behind as she was pushing her 2-year-old

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