Six dead in New Jersey shooting spree
NEW YORK: Six people including a police officer and two suspected gunmen were killed in an hours-long shootout near a cemetery and a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, New Jersey yesterday.
Jersey City police chief Michael Kelly said the two snipers acted alone.
“The two gunmen and three civilian victims were pronounced dead inside the JC Kosher Supermarket.
“The slain police detective was fatally wounded near a cemetery about a mile away where the shooting apparently started when he tried to intercept one of the suspects, Kelly said
He said there was no immediate evidence the bloodshed was a hate crime or terror-related.
Kelly believed the civilians and the detective were all struck by gunfire from the suspects, who arrived in a stolen U-Haul truck and held police at bay around the store for hours before the shooting ended.
“Two more police officers and a civilian were wounded but were reported in stable condition,” the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office posted on Twitter.
Police said the two wounded officers were later released from the hospital.
Reuters
