🚨Police-involved shooting in Jersey City leaves one man dead
🚨Jersey City police push back against misinformation about the incident
🚨Officers fired at a man breaking into an abandoned house in East Windsor
JERSEY CITY — A top police official is pushing back at rumors about what happened during a police-involved shooting early Tuesday, and said the officers involved are receiving threats.
One person was killed early Tuesday in Jersey City after an officer and a man exchanged gunfire in the area of Bergen and Virginia avenues shortly after 1 a.m., according to New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin. The Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability is investigating the incident per state law.
Mayor Steven Fulop, on his X account, said officers noticed a person with a bulge in his clothing acting suspiciously. Fulop said the man shot at an officer, who then returned fire. The man was taken to a hospital where he later died.
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