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Fort Lee NJ, the Attorney General’s Office is investigating a fatal shooting by a police officer that occurred Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Fort Lee, New Jersey. One woman sustained fatal injuries. Her identity is not being released at this time.
According to the preliminary investigation, today, at approximately 1:25 a.m., police officers from the Fort Lee Police Department responded to a home in “The Pinnacle” apartment complex on Main Street, after a man called 911 reporting that his sister was having a mental health crisis and needed to go to the hospital. The caller stated that his sister was holding a knife.
Upon arrival, an officer spoke to the caller outside of the apartment unit in the building’s hallway. The officer then opened the apartment door and observed two females; one appearing to be the sister and another female. The females told the officer not to come in and shut the door. The officer stood outside knocking on the door asking the females to open the door as additional officers arrived. After the occupants did not comply, officers breached the door. As the sister approached the officers in the hallway, one officer fired a single shot, striking the female in the chest. Officers provided immediate medical aid. The female who was shot was transported to Englewood Hospital, and pronounced deceased at approximately 1:58 a.m. A knife was recovered at the scene.
A 2019 law, N.J.S.A. 52:17B-107(a)(2), 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.
The investigation is ongoing and no further information is being released at this time.
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Not to be a monday am quarter back,,, but what is the point of issuing, carrying and training with tasers that has been done as a non-lethal alternative ………..
I love it. Officers provided immediate medical aid, after shooting her to death.
The brother learned the hard way that calling the police for wellness checks/mental health crises is like trying to pop a zit with a shotgun. There are well over a hundred cases (on record) in recent years of police smoking the very people they were called to assist. So, yeah, maybe don’t do that.
I am all in support of the police but it has never made sense to me why shooting to kill. In this case and in many other before, why not shoot to disable the aggressor like in the leg or some other non lethal parts. Or tasers. This is sick.
The usual liberal comments here. Save you unrealistic comments about tazers and shooting the weapon out of the hand like in the movies. Fast moving interactions in confined spaces when someone is lunging a deadly weapon requires an instantaneous response. I know, let’s defund the police and have a mental health person deal with these crazies
You also left out of the part of the story where it was pitch black in the hallway and the assailant was wearing night vision goggles putting the brave officer at a severe disadvantage.
If you’re looking for that in the post, it’s right next to the section where the female lunged at the officer in a confined space. Cops repeatedly use ‘I was in fear of my life’ as a justification for shooting people dead. I hate to break it to you, but danger is part of the job; talk about a cop out. They were called that day to safeguard a life and carelessly took one instead. If you can shoot to kill, you can shoot to wound.
And I’m not liberal. And though you claim not to be one too, you seem to have no problem licking jackboots like one.
“cop out”….
Was that an intended play on words?
Of course!
You may not call yourself a liberal, but you have no clue as to what police face every day.
Cops NEVER want to shoot and the ABSOLUTELY NEVER want to kill.
Sometimes it is a tragic occurrence of the situation that they have been placed in while protecting the public.
I’ll admit that I have no clue what police on TV and cartoons face every day because I don’t bury my head in propaganda.
I’ll also admit that it’s a dangerous world out there. Like when an old lady calls the cops because she believes there’s an intruder on her property and the cops shoot her instead over a pot of boiling water.
Here’s the body cam footage of the incident that took place in Illinois just recently:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c28evrd9depo
I’m sure that cop ABSOLUTELY NEVER wanted to kill that old lady by shooting her in the head … from across the room.
Not an isolated incident, lady.
OK.
Sure.
You’re not an anti-cop liberal.
Whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night.
All the usual RICH and STUPID here.
Doubtful if any of the above commenters ever held OR fired a weapon.
Walk the walk before you talk the talk…