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NJ Man, 19, Shot Dead After Charging At Police With Large Knife, Video Shows NJ Man, 19, Shot Dead After Charging At Police With Large Knife, Video Shows
NJ Man, 19, Shot Dead After Charging At Police With Large Knife, Video Shows VIDEO: "Take your gun and shoot me," a 19-year-old Somerset County man tells several police officers before he charges at them with a large knife and is shot dead by one of them, a group of videos released by New Jersey's attorney general shows. Joshua Mathis actually made two of three 911 calls of a man with a gun that brought the Hillsborough officers to an apartment on Corporal Langon Way shortly after 6 p.m. Jan. 9, Acting New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said. A woman let them in, and they immediately found Mathis about 20 feet away holding a large knife in his right han…

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CHILLING AUDIO: Local NJ Police Try To Convince Man To Drop Sword Before Shooting Him CHILLING AUDIO: Local NJ Police Try To Convince Man To Drop Sword Before Shooting Him
Chilling Audio: Local NJ Police Try To Convince Man To Drop Sword Before Shooting Him "Patrick, drop it," a New Jersey police officer says in a calm, steady voice, pleading several times with a man wielding a 3-foot sword to surrender. "Listen to me, I know you're going through some...," the officer says before his voice rises. "Patrick drop it! Get on the ground! Get on the ground!" he screams. "Drop the knife!" Then four shots are heard. The confrontation in Somerset County early last fall lasted barely a minute. About an hour and 20 minutes later, Patrick Chin, 43, was pronounced dead at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. The comman…

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AG: NJ Man Shot, Killed In Confrontation With Police AG: NJ Man Shot, Killed In Confrontation With Police
AG: NJ Man Shot, Killed In Confrontation With Police A man was shot and killed in a confrontation with local police in Somerset County over the weekend, state authorities said Monday. Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck confirmed the shooting, which he said occurred shortly before 6:30 p.m. Sunday inside an apartment on Corporal Langon Way in Hillsborough. No one else was injured, he said. Township police were responding to a 911 call at the residence when the confrontation occurred, the attorney general said. "Officers and emergency medical personnel rendered first aid to the man, and he was pronounced deceased at the scene …

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AG: Hillsborough Man Wielded 3-Foot-Long Sword Before Being Pepper-Sprayed, Shot By Police AG: Hillsborough Man Wielded 3-Foot-Long Sword Before Being Pepper-Sprayed, Shot By Police
AG: Hillsborough Man Wielded 3-Foot-Long Sword Before Being Pepper-Sprayed, Shot By Police A Hillsborough man was holding a three-foot-long sword when he was pepper-sprayed and then shot and killed by police at his home last month, New Jersey's top law enforcement official said Monday. Five uniformed Hillsborough officers responding to a request for a welfare check went to the Piedmont Path home where Patrick Chin, 43, and his new bride lived at 4:10 p.m. Sept. 28, Acting Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. "When the officers arrived, they encountered Mr. Chin inside the home holding an approximately three-foot long sword," Bruck said. "During the encounter, Officer George …

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