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Jersey City Shootout: Assailants Kill Police Officer, 3 Orthodox Jews Also Killed

Hank Berrien
Jersey City Shootout: Assailants Kill Police Officer, 3 Orthodox Jews Also Killed
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On Tuesday, a shootout between New Jersey police and drug suspects in Jersey City, New Jersey, that started at a cemetery wound up at a kosher supermarket, where a police officer and three Jews in the grocery were killed.

The New York Times reported, “Officials believe the shooting began when the detective approached one of the gunmen at a nearby cemetery in connection with a homicide investigation and was shot dead, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The gunmen then fled in a truck and eventually ended up at the kosher market, where they opened fire on police officers and civilians, officials said.”

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