Jersey City law enforcement agencies are investigating a shooting that killed a person and injured two others Saturday, authorities said. The shooting took place in the area of Jordan Avenue and Mercer Street, near McGinley Square, according to a social media statement by the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office. Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai on location: Abhira gets hospitalised; Armaan breaks down emotionallyYeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai on location: Abhira gets hospitalised; Armaan breaks down emotionally The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit and the Jersey City Police Department are investigating a shooting in the area of Jordan Avenue and Mercer Street.
One individual was fatally wounded and two others are injured. More to follow. March 9, 2024 The office’s Homicide Unit and the Jersey City Police Department are investigating. The Prosecutor’s office pushed out a social media statement in the morning and indicated more info would be released later. This article will be updated as the situation develops.
Two Jersey City men were charged and one gun was recovered after a daytime shooting incident in Jersey City Wednesday, city spokeswoman Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione said. The shooting broke out at approximately 9:30 a.m. in the area of Martin Luther King Drive and Stegman Street, not far from School 15. Police said in the transmissions that shots were fired at a person and that person pulled out a gun and returned fire. Looking at surveillance camera footage, police said in the radio transmissions that it appears the person’s gun jammed and he ducked into a convenience store on Martin Luther King Drive. One weapon was recovered in a yard on Dwight Street, a block away. Shooting in Jersey City kills one, wounds two others.
Police are investigating the shooting of five people outside of a lounge early Sunday morning in Jersey City. Investigators said a 20-year-old woman was found shot several times along Culver Avenue. She’s expected to survive. Three other victims were taken to the hospital in stable condition. Police said a 24-year-old man, who was also shot, was discovered in a car that crashed while fleeing the scene.
There was no immediate word on a motive for the gun violence.- Police shot and killed a man in Jersey City who they say approached them with a knife, but his family says he was having a mental health crisis. The victim has been identified as 52-year-old Andrew Jerome Washington. He was transported to the hospital for surgery but was later pronounced dead. “I’m just crushed because we trusted the system, we trusted that they would come and do the right thing,” Washington’s aunt, Lisa Mendez, said.
The Attorney General’s Office has identified Officer Stephen Gigante as the ESU officer who shot Washington. Officers responded to a home on Randolph Avenue near Bramhall Avenue just before 2:30 p.m. Sunday after EMS requested police. It is not clear who first called EMS to the scene. A preliminary investigation by the Attorney General’s Office revealed that officers from the Jersey City Police Department attempted to communicate with Washington, but he allegedly refused to open his apartment door.
Jersey City PD then called for the Jersey City Emergency Services Unit (ESU). ESU officers attempted to communicate with Washington through the closed apartment door for over 30 minutes, according to the preliminary investigation.
Around 3:30 p.m., about an hour after EMS had first arrived at the scene, ESU members forced open the door to Washington’s apartment. Then, Washington allegedly advanced towards the officers. In response, ESU Officer Felix DeJesus deployed his stun gun. Officer Gigante fired his service weapon, striking Washington twice. This was the second time Washington had been shot by police in his lifetime. According to his family, Washington was shot in the arm during a confrontation with police 12 years prior.
Law enforcement recovered a knife from the scene. Washington’s family says he was suffering from a mental health crisis after he stopped taking critical medication. His family said they did not expect a SWAT team to confront their loved one, who was reportedly in an “agitated state.” “At one point it seemed like they were going to go in and bring him out, then all of the sudden the SWAT team came in, they’re telling us to back up,” Mendez said. “Why are we backing up? It just turned real ugly.
On Monday, the Jersey City mayor and director of public safety said they want to be as transparent as possible with this case. The entire incident was captured on body camera video. The New Jersey attorney general is in possession of the video and is leading this investigation. The mayor and public safety director said what they saw on the video was in line with departmental protocol. “The officers called for emergency services, who officially trained and are equipped to act as a team to deal with people in emotional crisis,” said Public Safety Director James Shea said. The family says they called a crisis center Saturday afternoon that had treated Washington as recently as a few days prior for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
They were worried he was released too soon. “We were more afraid he would hurt himself, not anyone else,” Mendez said. According to Washington’s relatives, he was not violent. They said he had a “terrible illness.” The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office says it begins an investigation any time someone dies in an encounter with a law enforcement officer.
