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Officers and a mental health screener from Jersey City Medical Center’s Mobile Crisis Unit were trying to perform a welfare check on a man inside of a home near Webster and Passaic avenues when he barricaded himself inside around 8:45 a.m., KPD Chief George King said.
The man may have been experiencing a mental health crisis and may have displayed a shotgun, authorities later learned.
With assistance from the Hudson County Regional SWAT Team, Kearny Police officers secured a safety perimeter and communicated with the man from outside the home.
Just before 3:45 p.m., the man peacefully emerged and was transported by EMS to a local hospital.
The man was not charged but the situation remains under investigation.
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