A New Jersey sheriff’s officer plunged to his death when he fell out of a ninth-floor window in Jersey City on Friday morning.
Hudson County Sheriff’s Officer Justin Rivera was on duty with at least two other officers inside the Hudson County Administrative Building on Newark Avenue just before 9:30 a.m. when the tragedy occurred.
First responders found the 29-year-old officer outside the building on Central Avenue and transported him to Jersey City Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead roughly 30 minutes later, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez announced.
Suarez did not reveal the reason for Rivera’s fatal fall, but ruled that Rivera’s death “appears to be accidental in nature at this time.”…