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Everything We Know About the Gun Battle in Jersey City That Killed 6
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/everything-we-know-about-the-gun-battle-in-jersey-city.html
A New Jersey police officer, three bystanders, and two suspects were killed in an extended firefight in Jersey City on Tuesday. Shots broke out around 12:30 p.m. outside a kosher market, which officials say was the targeted by the gunmen; the police officer was killed about a mile and a half to the south, near Bay View Cemetery.
According to Jersey City police chief Michael Kelly, the shooting began when Detective Joseph Seals approached a man and woman sitting in a U-Haul van at a Jersey City cemetery. The van was reportedly linked to a homicide that happened over the weekend. Seals, who Kelly said is the city’s “leading police officer in removing guns from the street,” was shot by one of the suspects, who then fled to the Jersey City Kosher Supermarket. When officers arrived at the grocery, suspects fired on them with rifles, holing up in the store in a small Orthodox Jewish neighborhood.
Law enforcement called the attack an “ambush” and confirmed that the casualties include three victims from inside the store and the two suspects. Two police officers, Ray Sanchez and Mariela Fernandez, were injured in the gunfight but both were released from the hospital Tuesday night. The police and the suspects exchanged gunfire for over an hour, the chilling scenes taking place in the city just across the Hudson River from lower Manhattan.
At a press conference Wednesday Morning, Fulop said “We do feel comfortable that it was a targeted attack on the Jewish kosher deli. We could see the van moving through Jersey City streets slowly, the perpetrator stopped in front of there, calmly opened the door with two long rifles — him and the other perpetrator — and began firing from the street into the facility.”
Also Wednesday morning, the New York Times reported that one of the suspects in the shooting was found to have “published anti-Semitic and anti-police posts online and investigators believe the attack was motivated by those sentiments.” A “manifesto-style note” was also found inside the van the suspects were driving, according to the Times.
A New Jersey police officer, three bystanders, and two suspects were killed in an extended firefight in Jersey City on Tuesday. Shots broke out around 12:30 p.m. outside a kosher market, which officials say was the targeted by the gunmen; the police officer was killed about a mile and a half to the south, near Bay View Cemetery.
According to Jersey City police chief Michael Kelly, the shooting began when Detective Joseph Seals approached a man and woman sitting in a U-Haul van at a Jersey City cemetery. The van was reportedly linked to a homicide that happened over the weekend. Seals, who Kelly said is the city’s “leading police officer in removing guns from the street,” was shot by one of the suspects, who then fled to the Jersey City Kosher Supermarket. When officers arrived at the grocery, suspects fired on them with rifles, holing up in the store in a small Orthodox Jewish neighborhood.
Law enforcement called the attack an “ambush” and confirmed that the casualties include three victims from inside the store and the two suspects. Two police officers, Ray Sanchez and Mariela Fernandez, were injured in the gunfight but both were released from the hospital Tuesday night. The police and the suspects exchanged gunfire for over an hour, the chilling scenes taking place in the city just across the Hudson River from lower Manhattan.
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At a press conference Wednesday Morning, Fulop said “We do feel comfortable that it was a targeted attack on the Jewish kosher deli. We could see the van moving through Jersey City streets slowly, the perpetrator stopped in front of there, calmly opened the door with two long rifles — him and the other perpetrator — and began firing from the street into the facility.”
Also Wednesday morning, the New York Times reported that one of the suspects in the shooting was found to have “published anti-Semitic and anti-police posts online and investigators believe the attack was motivated by those sentiments.” A “manifesto-style note” was also found inside the van the suspects were driving, according to the Times.
There are lots more videos in the tweets where you can hear gunfire and screaming, and see people running. Fair warning if you choose to watch it. There was a time when this was shocking. This sort of thing has become way too common these days.
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