UPDATE: NJ State Trooper Fatally Shoots Carjacking Suspect

A New Jersey State Police trooper fatally shot a suspected carjacker in Union Township on Tuesday evening.

According to a preliminary investigation from the New Jersey Attorney General’s Shooting Response Team, the shooting took place around 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 21, on Walker Avenue near the Mill Run apartment complex in Union Township.

State troopers from the New Jersey State Police Interstate Theft North Unit were conducting surveillance on a vehicle that was reported stolen from Bloomfield on April 13. Troopers watched a man, who was identified as Daniel Wolfe, 35, enter the vehicle shortly before 6 p.m. and approached the vehicle to arrest the suspect, according to the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.

As authorities approached the vehicle, Wolfe reportedly drove the vehicle in reverse, crashing into a parked car, and then accelerated forward toward a state trooper. The trooper fired several rounds, wounding Wolfe in the head, the attorney general reported. The vehicle driven by Wolfe continued southbound on Walker Avenue and struck another parked car before coming to a stop.

Authorities immediately administered medical aid to Wolfe. He was then taken to University Hospital in Newark, where he was pronounced dead. It was not specified whether Wolfe died at the scene or at the hospital.

The three troopers involved in the incident were taken to Overlook Medical Center in Summit, where they were examined and released. The three are being interviewed and their names have not yet been released.

No additional information has been released. The investigation is ongoing.

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