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Officers responding to smoke coming from a Pemberton home on Woodland Avenue around 3:20 p.m., New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said.
They were notified that a man later identified as Marvin Taylor, 57, had a firearm and was in the backyard.
Officers commanded Taylor to drop the weapon, as they positioned themselves in the wood-lined area behind the home.
Taylor exchanged gunfire with Kyle McQueen, a Pemberton Township officer, and was struck and killed by gunfire, Platkin said.
Officers rendered first aid to Taylor, who was flown to Cooper University Hospital in Camden, where he was pronounced dead at 5:36 p.m.
A firearm was recovered near Taylor's body after he was shot. No officers or other civilians were injured during the incident.
A 2019 law requires the attorney general’s Office to conduct investigations of a person’s death that occurs during an encounter with a law enforcement officer acting in the officer’s official capacity or while the decedent is in custody.
It requires that all such investigations be presented to a grand jury to determine if the evidence supports the return of an indictment against the officer or officers involved.
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