As the reward for suspects connected to a fatal carjacking at an upscale New Jersey mall has risen to $41,000, the number of such violent crimes in the garden state’s Essex County has reached 450 in 2013 — an all-time high. Katherine Carter, a spokeswoman for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, told FoxNews.com that 450 carjackings have occurred this year, up from 422 in 2012. In 2011, 277 carjackings were reported in the county, which includes crime-ridden Newark, once dubbed the “car theft capital of the world” in the 1990s.