A 55-year-old Newark man was arrested and charged with fatally stabbing a deli worker in East Orange last week.

Roberto Ubiera, 55, of Newark. (Essex County Prosecutor's Office)

Roberto Ubiera was charged with murder in the slaying of Tarlok Singh, 55, of East Orange, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office announced on Tuesday.

Singh, who worked at the Park Deli & Grocery on North Park Street, was stabbed Friday morning around 7:30 a.m., prosecutors said.

He was pronounced dead at the deli.

Ubiera did odd jobs at the deli, according to the prosecutor's statement.

He is being held at the Essex County jail and is scheduled to have a detention hearing on Aug. 23.

Singh was a well-liked member of the community who was kind to everyone, residents told ABC7.

Following the attack on Singh, members of the Sikh community took to social media to condemn the attack. It had been the third violent attack on a Sikh in the United States in three weeks.

Prosecutors did not state a motive for the attack on Singh.

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