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Police-Involved Shooting Reported In Paterson Police-Involved Shooting Reported In Paterson
Police-Involved Shooting Reported In Paterson Authorities confirmed an overnight police-involved shooting in Paterson on Saturday. They provided few details, however, citing an ongoing investigation of the incident. Police were arresting someone else on a gun possession charge on Garrison Street on the city’s west side shortly before 3:30 a.m. when they heard gunshots, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said. “Upon responding to the location of the gunshots, a Paterson [o]fficer encountered an individual,” Valdes said in a brief release. “During the course of that encounter, the Paterson [o]fficer discharged his service iss…

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'TRULY HORRIFIC': Officer Fatally Shoots Former Fair Lawn Nurse Swinging Axe In Virginia Home 'TRULY HORRIFIC': Officer Fatally Shoots Former Fair Lawn Nurse Swinging Axe In Virginia Home
'Truly Horrific': Officer Fatally Shoots Former Fair Lawn Nurse Swinging Axe In Virginia Home A nurse from Fair Lawn who moved to Virginia was fatally shot by a police officer performing a welfare check at her house after she charged at him swinging an axe, authorities said. Henrico County police responded to the home of Gay Ellen Plack -- formerly of the Radburn section -- on a welfare check Tuesday, Police Chief Humberto Cardounel said in a video release. No one answered the officers' knocks at the front door, and so they went to the back of the house where they found an unlocked door, Cardounel said. The officers went inside and found a locked door, calling Plack's name several …

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by Cecilia Levine