Video footage taken from inside a Jersey City store shows heavy police presence after a shootout that left a detective and three victims dead. City officials say the incident was a 'targeted' attack on a Jewish deli.
Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said security footage "clearly" shows the perpetrators, who were shot to death by police after an hours-long gunfight, were out to kill people inside the market., New Jersey, with a pair of rifle-wielding suspects who allegedly killed a detective and three victims was part of rapid series of crimes that included a deliberate attack on a Jewish deli, authorities said on Wednesday.
Emergency responders work at a kosher supermarket, the day after a shooting in Jersey City, N.J., Dec. 11, 2019.Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop and James Shea, the city's director of public safety, said security footage"clearly" shows the perpetrators, who were shot to death by police after an hours-long gunfight, were out to kill people inside the market.
Fulop and Shea said security cameras captured the suspects arriving at the market and exiting a stolen U-Haul van with rifles blazing. "With the amount of ammunition they had, we have to assume they would have continued attacking human beings if we hadn't been there," Shea said.Jersey City's mayor Steven Fulop, right, and the Director of Public Safety James Shea talk to reporters across the street from a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, N.J., Dec. 11, 2019.
"There were multiple other people on the streets so there were many other targets available to them that they bypassed to attack that place," Shea said. He went on to add,"That was their target and they intended to harm people inside there." Emergency responders work near a kosher supermarket and a synagogue near the site of shooting in Jersey City, N.J., Dec. 11, 2019.In addition to the two other officers wounded in the shootout, a third was hurt by shrapnel, officials said. The officers were all treated at a hospital and released.Seals was the department's"leading police officer for removing guns from the street," Chief Kelly said, adding that he was responsible for removing"dozens and dozens" of firearms.
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