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Police Officer Fatally Shoots Man In Orange Police Officer Fatally Shoots Man In Orange
Police Officer Fatally Shoots Man In Orange A 46-year-old man was shot and killed by Orange police responding to a  call Saturday afternoon, the Attorney General's office said in a statement.  Police received a 911 call shortly after 3 p.m. reporting a man with a knife at Oakwood Towers on Oakwood Avenue. The man was involved in an "altercation," the Attorney General's office said.  One of the officers who responded to the call shot the man, Jamahl Smith. He was taken to University Hospital in Newark, where he was pronounced dead.  Before police arrived Smith had repeatedly stabbed his sister, who was seen bleedi…

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by Paul Milo