A 19-year-old Keansburg man shot and killed a 20-year-old during an argument in his Keyport apartment on Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

John Curtin fled to New York City after gunning down Evan Smutz in the Holmdel Pointe Apartments on Center Street, the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office said in a statement Friday.

Smutz was shot around 12:48 p.m. and pronounced dead at 1:21 p.m, officials said.

The NYPD took Curtin into custody several hours later and he was brought back to Monmouth County, where he made a first appearance in Superior Court this afternoon.

Curtin is charged with murder, felony murder, robbery and two weapons offenses.

A 2016 graduate of Keyport High School, Smutz was on the Monmouth squad in the 2016 All-Shore Gridiron Classic, a summer all-star football game, according to shorepsportsnetwork.com. He also played baseball for Keyport.

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