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Grand Jury: Morris Police Sergeant Justified Shooting Man Pointing Airsoft Gun Grand Jury: Morris Police Sergeant Justified Shooting Man Pointing Airsoft Gun
Grand Jury: Morris Police Sergeant Justified Shooting Man Pointing Airsoft Gun UPDATE: A police sergeant was justified in shooting a Morris Township man who pointed an airsoft gun at him during a domestic disturbance call, a state grand jury has ruled. Timothy O’Shea, 24, was bleeding from the neck and wrists when officers responding to a 911 call found him in the driveway of his Fairchild Avenue home on July 14, 2020, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said Tuesday, April 12. Several responding officers -- from the township, Morris Plains and Morristown – had gotten the older female caller to safety when they encountered O’Shea, the attorney genera…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Lyndhurst Man Fires Gun At Officer, Then Fatally Shoots Self, Responders Say Lyndhurst Man Fires Gun At Officer, Then Fatally Shoots Self, Responders Say
Lyndhurst Man Fires Gun At Officer, Then Fatally Shoots Self, Responders Say A disgruntled Lyndhurst man fired a shot at a borough police officer, then turned the gun on himself Sunday, multiple sources told Daily Voice. The 36-year-old resident was outside his Post Avenue home -- a block and a half off Ridge Road -- when the officer encountered him while responding to a 911 call of a domestic disturbance around 8 a.m., responders said. The resident, who records show had no criminal history, fired a round at the officer before apparently shooting himself, they said. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital a short time later. Daily Voice was temporarily with…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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New Jersey AG Releases Bodycam Video Of Knife-Wielding Bayonne Man Shot Dead By Police New Jersey AG Releases Bodycam Video Of Knife-Wielding Bayonne Man Shot Dead By Police
New Jersey AG Releases Bodycam Video Of Knife-Wielding Bayonne Man Shot Dead By Police VIDEO: New Jersey's chief law enforcement official on Tuesday released video from three different body cameras that he said captured the shooting death by Bayonne police of a knife-wielding man in his home. Uniformed officers had gone to the West 1st Street home on a 6:30 a.m. call of a domestic disturbance on June 7, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Video shows them being met by a woman whom sources said was the mother of Lee Waskiewicz, 47, with whom she lived. She escorts the officers in and calls Waskiewicz down from the third floor. Seeing police, Waskiewicz  goes "…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team
Gang Member Locked In GF's Elmwood Park Apartment Surrenders To SWAT Team ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- (UPDATE) The barricaded man talked out of his girlfriend's Elmwood Park apartment by a SWAT team negotiator after he stabbed and slashed himself Friday morning is a gang member known as "Young Yb," authorities said. Ex-con Danny Urena, 25, kicked in the door of the Donor Avenue garden apartment in the Elmwood Village complex around 9:45 a.m. and confronted his 31-year-old girlfriend about not coming home last night, Chief Michael Foligno said. She escaped and called police while the 6-foot-3-inch, 250-pound Urena barricaded himself in the bathroom and began c…

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by Jerry DeMarco