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SUICIDE BY COP: Video Shows Detective Shooting Knife-Wielding Man At NJ Apartment Complex SUICIDE BY COP: Video Shows Detective Shooting Knife-Wielding Man At NJ Apartment Complex
Suicide BY COP: Video Shows Detective Shooting Knife-Wielding Man At NJ Apartment Complex Eight videos released by authorities show the shooting of a knife-wielding man by a sheriff's detective at an apartment complex in Plainsboro last month, but one of them is particularly chilling. That's the bodycam footage recorded by the detective himself. Four other officers firing Tasers couldn't disarm an agitated Atiba Lewis, 45, as he advanced on them at the Crest at Princeton Meadows Apartment Complex off Plainsboro Road between Routes 1 and 130 on Feb. 16. The standoff ended when Lewis rushed the detective. Middlesex County sheriff's officers had gone to the complex that morning …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Triple-Vaxxed NJ Dad, Rutgers Grad Dies Of COVID-19 Complications Triple-Vaxxed NJ Dad, Rutgers Grad Dies Of COVID-19 Complications
Triple-Vaxxed NJ Dad, Rutgers Grad Dies Of Covid-19 Complications Timothy Helck took all the precautions he could to protect himself and others from contracting COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic.  He got his first vaccine shot, then the second, and finally the booster. Unfortunately, none of them stopped the Plainsboro, New Jersey dad of six from contracting the virus. He got it just before Christmas and developed COVID-19-related sepsis, according to a GoFundMe page launched by his daughter, Miranda Helck. Then, he suffered a heart attack and died on Dec. 29 -- hours after being admitted to the hospital. He was 64 years old. "For nearly two ye…

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by Nicole Acosta