Jersey City shooting: Six people, including police officer, killed in supermarket shoot-out
Six people, including a New Jersey police officer, are dead following a chaotic afternoon shoot-out in Jersey City that injured two other officers.
A police bomb squad also is investigating a stolen U-Haul van recovered from the scene.
The shooting started after two people allegedly carrying long guns drove the van to a storefront near Martin Luther King Jr Blvd., then continued to a nearby cemetery and, finally, a supermarket, where five bodies were recovered.
According to police, an officer was killed near the cemetery, and suspects fled into a supermarket, where the suspects fired at police as they responded to the scene.
Three people inside the supermarket were killed, and another person was injured.
Another officer was shot in the shoulder, and two other officers received injuries from shrapnel, according to police.
Two suspects were found dead inside the store.
Jersey City police chief Michael Kelly said officers "were under fire for hours" while nearby schools were on lock-down and heavily armed and armoured SWAT officers arrived on the scene, turning the town of 270,000 people across from the Hudson River from New York City into what sounded like a war zone, engulfed in the sounds of gunfire echoing through the area and captured on mobile phones as bystanders surrounded police barricades to capture video.
Officials were still determining what set off the gun battle, though officials ruled out terrorism.
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Police say the extensive crime scene — which encompasses at least three locations — could take "weeks, maybe months" to investigate.
New Jersey officials shared their condolences for the people who were killed, and the White House said Donald Trump was briefed on the shootings.
