Crime & Safety
Paterson Man Dies In Police-Involved Shooting Friday: AG
The daytime shooting took place is not connected to the shooting that left a NJ state trooper hospitalized this week, authorities said.
PATERSON, NJ - A Paterson resident died in a police-involved shooting Friday afternoon in the city, authorities said.
The shooting took place at around 12:30 p.m. in the area of Mill and Ellison streets in Paterson, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office said in a statement.
The civilian was transported to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, where he was pronounced dead. The identity of the shooting victim was not immediately released by state officials.
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The shooting is not related to any other police-involved incidents that occurred in Paterson earlier in the week, including one shooting that left a New Jersey state trooper hospitalized Thursday morning, the attorney general’s office said. Read more: Man Charged In NJ State Trooper Shooting: Attorney General
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office of Public Integrity and Accountability opens an investigation anytime a fatal police-involved shooting is reported.
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The investigation is ongoing. No further information is being released at this time, the attorney general’s office said.
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