FIRE – Four people, including a police officer, were killed on Tuesday in a shooting in Jersey City, a suburb of New York, according to a provisional report. The two suspects are also deceased.
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Panic scenes on Tuesday in Jersey City after a shooting broke out in the afternoon in this New Jersey town, near New York, killing four, three civilians and a police officer, according to the police chief of the city, Michael Kelly, who clarified that two suspects were also deceased.
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Hundreds of shots exchanged
No official explanation has yet been given as to the origins of this shooting which began at midday and lasted more than two hours. Hundreds of shots were exchanged, according to NBC. The shooting started in a cemetery, but the suspects then “moved quickly and continuously in the neighborhood,” said Michael Kelly. The shooting turned a residential area of Jersey City into a scene of war for several hours, with hundreds of police from across the state deployed in the streets, often armed to the teeth.
According to local media, the shooting started as a police officer, who was investigating a murder, approached the suspects in the cemetery. Identified as a detective by the name of Joe Seals, he died first. The two suspects then took refuge in a grocery store, where the shooting continued. It was there that were found, after more than two
hours of shooting, the bodies of two suspects and three civilians, said Michael Kelly, without giving more details on these three victims.
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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has not immediately confirmed any record. He had indicated earlier that an unspecified number of police officers had been hit by gunfire in Jersey City, and that many law enforcement units had been mobilized. The mayor of the city, Steven Fulop, has only confirmed for the moment the death of a police officer, specifying that two others, injured, were treated by medical teams.
Note that the neighborhood schools were cordoned off from the first reported gunfire, as is the rule in the United States in the event of a shooting.
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