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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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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Attorney General: State Trooper Justified In Shooting Suspect NJ Attorney General: State Trooper Justified In Shooting Suspect
NJ Attorney General: State Trooper Justified In Shooting Suspect LAKE HOPATCONG, N.J. -- A State Police trooper was justified in shooting a Lake Hopatcong man who charged at him and his colleagues as they tried to arrest him for assaulting his girlfriend, New Jersey Attorney General Christopher Porrino said Tuesday. "An officer may use deadly force in New Jersey when the officer reasonably believes it is immediately necessary to protect the officer or another person from imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm," Porrino said. In this case, he said, "the facts and circumstances reasonably led the officer to believe his actions were …

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by Jerry DeMarco