The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office is investigating the fatal shooting of a 30-year-old man by a plainclothes State Police detective in Bergen County. Some reports have indicated that the man was armed with a knife, but that has yet to be confirmed by the New Jersey State Police or the Office of the Attorney General.
MOONACHIE, NJ – A 30-year-old California man was fatally shot by a plainclothes New Jersey State Police detective during a criminal investigation in Bergen County on Wednesday, October 28. State authorities confirmed that the detective fired two shots during an encounter in Moonachie, but have not publicly disclosed what prompted the use of deadly force.
The man was identified as Roberto Castro-Quinonez, 30, of Bakersfield, California, according to an October 29 statement from the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office. The shooting occurred at approximately 5:15 p.m. in an industrial area of Moonachie, near Gotham Parkway and West Commercial Avenue…