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NJ Trooper Cleared In Shooting Death Of Driver Who Tried To Run Him Down NJ Trooper Cleared In Shooting Death Of Driver Who Tried To Run Him Down
NJ Trooper Cleared In Shooting Death Of Driver Who Tried To Run Him Down A New Jersey State Police trooper was justified in shooting and killing a driver who rammed his pickup truck into two police vehicles and then tried to run him over, a grand jury found. Christopher Pizzichetta, 46, of Lewes, Delaware, was sitting in his pickup truck at the north end of the Molly Pitcher Service Area in Cranbury last March 30 when plainclothes State Police officers investigating drugs and other crimes at the NJ Turnpike rest stop approached in an unmarked SUV,  state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Other troopers in an unmarked black pickup truck positioned their veh…

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