He should have been put away for what he did to that helpless cat. When is this country going to learn to punish criminals and stop letting them walk free to commit crimes over and over again? We need to take a lesson from the Middle East.

no!!!! why should they lower bail,keep this scum in jail!!!!

Wish someone would have shot and killed him in the store.

This is nj, judge will probably grant lower bail

NJ. Meaning he will get 10-20 and get out in 8.

whos patrice haylett

im surprised this creap didnt know the woman. totally random? put him in jail and throw away the key

The article says he victim is Kerri Decker and the Assistant Monmouth County [I'm assuming Prosecutor---the article doesn't say] is Christopher Decker. If tey are related, I wonder if this could be some kind if retaliation against the Prosecutor.

Actually, just tried to see if I could find anything on this. The victims name is Kerri Dalton, not Decker. The article is wrong.

How was he captured?

Let's just imagine if this guy had an assault weapon. As terrible as this was, we would have had a much larger number of casualties.

I do not have any additional knowledge of this case other than what is on these boards and in the news. I hold an AA in Social Science and a BA in Psychology but this does not make me an expert in the study of human behavior. I can’t tell you why this individual does such dastardly, heinous things but I do know that he needs to be confined so he cannot hurt others in the future. States, counties, local governments and the federal government needs to address this issue of ‘dangerous individuals’ among us or we and / or our families (and pets) could be next.

Typical White Vs Black Double Standard. A week or so ago a White Police office short a friend of his in his head and killed the guy and the bail was set at just $250,000
Yet when a Black man stabs a woman that did not die as a result__the bail is set at over $1 million.
Tyrik S. Haynes age 19 has a long history of mental illness. The real problem is the Judge who released him after he set the cat on fire, when instead he should have been confined to a mental hospital fro evaluation. He, just like Lanza the Newtown school shoter should have been confined long ago to a mental institution ___ yet state governments no longer provide funding for State Mental Hospitals and they closed down the ownes that had. When we try to Spend Less and close down instituions like Marlboro Mental Hospital and then allow the mentally ill to roam the streets___incidents like this will happen over and over again.

I don’t believe that bail is set based on the criteria of color but rather other factors. Suppose the bail was set at say . . . $10,000 and this individual’s family posted the bail money then, this individual would be back out on the street, would you want that, I wouldn’t.
I hold an AA in Social Science and a BA in Psychology; as such I am probably more qualified to address the mental health aspect of the above cited posting. Torturing defenseless animals is no doubt a sign of mental illness; I personally believe that every court room should have both a judge AND a psychiatrist to hear each case and after the evidence is presented by the prosecuting attorney, the two professionals should discuss it; is the suspect competent to stand trial, should he / she be placed in prison or a mental institution, should he/she be let out and on the streets among us? But having a Psychiatrist in every court room is expensive and confining dangerously mentally ill individuals to mental hospitals for life such as the individual who shot former president Reagan is prohibitively expensive. And finally we have the fact (which is obvious in some of the above comments) that the average individual is angry and wants not justice but revenge; an ‘eye for an eye’ mentality.