Jersey City Shooting: Police Officer Among 6 Killed in Shooting; Gunmen in Deadly Shooting Targeted Jewish Market
By ABC 7. One police officer was killed and two others were wounded, and five people were dead inside a grocery store following a wild shootout and standoff in Jersey City Tuesday afternoon.
The slain officer, identified as Detective Joseph Seals, was a 13-year veteran, husband, and father of five.
“It’s a really tough day for the city of Jersey City,” Mayor Steven Fulop said. “Even more than being a police officer that loved Jersey City, that was probably responsible for or one of the leading officers for the most guns getting off the street, from what I understand, he was also a husband and a father of five children.”
Authorities say the incident started at Bay View Cemetery just after noon, with Seals, 40, fatally shot and a second officer wounded in the shoulder, and was possibly related to a drug or gun deal gone bad.
They say two men dressed in black then fled in a stolen U-Haul to the area of JC Kosher Supermarket on Martin Luther King Drive, where they continued firing at responding officers. (Read more from “Jersey City Shooting: Police Officer Among 6 Killed in Shooting” HERE)
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Jersey City Mayor: Gunmen in Deadly Shooting Targeted Jewish Market
By Washington Examiner. The shooters in a fatal gunfight in Jersey City, New Jersey, intentionally targeted the kosher supermarket in which must of the shootout took place, according to the city’s mayor.
Six people, including one police officer and two suspects, were killed in the gun battle that unfolded Tuesday afternoon. According to reports, the shooting may have started in a cemetery before the shooters fled to a bodega owned by a Jewish family from Brooklyn, New York. Police later found five of the dead inside the store.
While an investigation into the matter is still ongoing, Mayor Steven Fulop indicated that initial investigation suggests the suspects targeted the market. . .
BREAKING: Jersey City's mayor says gunman in today's deadly standoff were deliberately targeting the Jewish market where it all unfolded.
— Jim Lokay FOX 5 (@LokayFOX5) December 11, 2019
Based on our initial investigation (which is ongoing) we now believe the active shooters targeted the location they attacked. Due to an excess of caution the community may see additional police resources in the days/weeks ahead. We have no indication there are any further threats
— Steven Fulop (@StevenFulop) December 11, 2019
It is unclear if there is an active anti-Semitic hate crime investigation into the incident. (Read more from “Jersey City Mayor: Gunmen in Deadly Shooting Targeted Jewish Market” HERE)
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