A Newark police officer accused of opening fire at a Jefferson home he once shared with his estranged wife, killing her and injuring her boyfriend, has been indicted on murder and attempted murder charges, according to Morris County officials.

Lt. John Formisano, 49, was indicted by a Morris County grand jury on Dec. 30, charging him on a number of offenses including the two first-degree charges along with two counts of second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, second-degree official misconduct, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child and third-degree hindering apprehension or prosecution.

Formisano is accused of killing Christie Solaro-Formisano, 37, and attempting to kill her boyfriend on July 11 at the Mirror Place home in Jefferson, police said.

Formisano, who was in uniform, used his service revolver to shoot his estranged wife on the steps of a neighbor’s home after she attempted to flee the home, police said. Her boyfriend, who officials have not named, was injured when he was shot several times by Formisano inside the home. The couple’s two children were inside the home at the time but were uninjured.

A veteran officer with the Newark Police Department now suspended without pay, Formisano was later taken into custody in a parking lot in Livingston.

Formisano, who has been held in the Ann Klein Forensic Center, a psychiatric hospital in Trenton, was indicted 158 days after his arrest. Under the state’s bail reform laws, a defendant who is detained must be indicted within 90 days but a judge ordered extensions to the rule.

During a video conference in August, Formisano pleaded not guilty to initial charges of first-degree murder and attempted murder. In November, a judge ordered he undergo a mental health competency evaluation.

If convicted on a first-degree murder charge, Formisano faces up to life in prison.

He is expected to appear back in court on Jan. 13.

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