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NJ Man, 19, Shot Dead After Charging At Police With Large Knife, Video Shows NJ Man, 19, Shot Dead After Charging At Police With Large Knife, Video Shows
NJ Man, 19, Shot Dead After Charging At Police With Large Knife, Video Shows VIDEO: "Take your gun and shoot me," a 19-year-old Somerset County man tells several police officers before he charges at them with a large knife and is shot dead by one of them, a group of videos released by New Jersey's attorney general shows. Joshua Mathis actually made two of three 911 calls of a man with a gun that brought the Hillsborough officers to an apartment on Corporal Langon Way shortly after 6 p.m. Jan. 9, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said. A woman let them in, and they immediately found Mathis about 20 feet away holding a large knife in his right han…

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