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SWAT STANDOFF: Hackensack Man, 80, Armed With Rifle Subdued SWAT STANDOFF: Hackensack Man, 80, Armed With Rifle Subdued
SWAT Standoff: Hackensack Man, 80, Armed With Rifle Subdued UPDATE: An hours-long standoff with an 80-year-old Hackensack man armed with a rifle ended just after midnight Friday when a SWAT team burst into his apartment and took him into custody. In a tragic twist, a fellow building resident who had terminal cancer died during the incident, forcing the Bergen County Medical Examiner to wait to remove the body until the situation was resolved. It began after an out-of-state family member called and said an elderly tenant  at Harry Berkie Gardens had  "threatened to shoot anyone who came to his apartment," Capt. Darren DeWitt said. Three ci…

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