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Paterson Detective Justified In Shooting Armed Carjacker, Grand Jury Rules
UPDATE: A plainclothes Paterson police detective was justified in shooting a man who’d just crashed his car into two others, then tried to carjack multiple drivers, a state grand jury has found.
Hui Zhang, 33, of Pensacola, FL, was seen in area surveillance video crashing his car into two others that were stopped at the corner of Straight and Van Houten streets late on the afternoon of Oct. 10, 2022.
Zhang fled the scene, leaving his car behind, then threatened a group of people who were sitting in a car parked around the corner with what looked like a gun.
Zhang fired the weapon, then tri…
Elizabeth Man, 42, Armed With Knife In Domestic Dispute Shot, Killed By Police
A civilian shot and killed by an Elizabeth police officer responding to a domestic dispute this past weekend had a knife, authorities said.
Estiben Alegria-Hurtado, 42, of Elizabeth, was shot within a minute of the arrival of city police responding to a call of an "unwanted individual" on Amity Street shortly before 8 a.m. Saturday, July 29, a release from the office of New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin on Wednesday says.
Officers rendered aid to Hurtado, who was taken by an EMS unit to University Hospital in Newark, the release says.He was pronounced dead at 11:36 p.m. Sunda…
Philadelphia Man Sentenced For Shooting At Officers In South Jersey
A Philadelphia man has been sentenced to 25 years in New Jersey state prison for firing at two police officers, authorities said.
Arthur DiSanto, 42, struck one of the officers with gunfire, according to Camden County Prosecutor Grace C. MacAulay.
The shooting occurred on Aug.. 23, 2021.
On Jan. 31, 2023, DiSanto pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree attempted murder, for shooting the officers.
On Friday, April 14, the court imposed a sentence of 12 1⁄2 years on each first-degree count to run consecutively. DiSanto must also serve two separate five-year terms of paro…
