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Webster and Passaic avenues, Kearny, NJ

Kearny Police Release Details In Hours-Long SWAT Standoff Kearny Police Release Details In Hours-Long SWAT Standoff
Kearny Police Release Details In Hours-Long SWAT Standoff Police in Kearny have released details in an hours-long SWAT standoff that ended peacefully on Saturday, March 5. 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…