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Grand Jury Declines To Indict Weehawken Officer Who Shot Paterson Man: Prosecutor Grand Jury Declines To Indict Weehawken Officer Who Shot Paterson Man: Prosecutor
Grand Jury Declines To Indict Weehawken Officer Who Shot Paterson Man: Prosecutor A Hudson County grand jury declined to indict a Weehawken police officer on Tuesday, Oct. 15  for shooting a Paterson man in August 2023, authorities said. Ricky Rivera, 20-year-old Paterson resident was shot by Sgt. Vincent Avoletta after hitting a police officer with a car on the early morning of Tuesday, August 1, authorities said. At 5 a.m. police were patrolling a neighborhood plagued by auto thefts, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. When police approached a suspicious vehicle parked in a driveway on Regency Place, Rivera fled the scene in the vehicle, striking an offic…

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