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“The senseless killing has got to stop,” said the elder Rivers, the city’s first African-American fire chief.
His son’s assailant shot Darcell Rivers from behind on Fulton Avenue near Van Cleef Street around 3:45 a.m. and took his money and cellphone, authorities said.
He was pronounced dead a half-hour later at Jersey City Medical Center.
Darcell Rivers, a professional chef and father of four who lived in Providence, RI, was in town to visit his mother and his children — ages 2, 3, 4 and 13, according to the Jersey Journal newspaper.
His father, a 33-year firefighting veteran, told NBC4 New York that he told his girlfriend “I think I am being robbed” over the phone just before he was killed.
Anyone with information that could help investigators is asked to call the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit: (201) 915-1345.
PHOTOS: Darren Rivers, Darcell Rivers (inset)
Courtesy NBC4 NEW YORK
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