Well, this changes things. . .
Police and city officials are now saying that yesterday’s shootout at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, NJ was a targeted attack:
#Breaking: Jersey City officials say surveillance video shows the suspects driving slowly, parking, stepping out of the rental van and opening fire on the kosher market. Watch on CBSN New York: https://t.co/Bzzp0aijSo Read more: https://t.co/I8cabMvRgh pic.twitter.com/A2UOTaJi3V
— CBS New York (@CBSNewYork) December 11, 2019
Police aren’t giving out many other details, however:
In new press briefing, Jersey City authorities say CCTV shows kosher grocery was targeted, don't clarify why location was targeted/whether this was a hate crime, refuse to say whether attackers were two men or a man & woman, don't clarify how cemetery shooting was connected
— Steve Lookner (@lookner) December 11, 2019
Hundreds of shots were fired in the standoff:
Police are investigating a deadly New Jersey shooting rampage as a targeted attack. Hundreds of shots were fired during a standoff that lasted hours at a kosher grocery store in Jersey City. pic.twitter.com/HqwIGVQCbu
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) December 11, 2019
One detective and three others were killed in the attack:
Investigators looking into the deadly shooting of a New Jersey police detective and the deaths of 3 others at a kosher grocery store say there is growing concern that the market was specifically targeted, senior law enforcement sources said. https://t.co/0VlAxDNWgL
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 11, 2019
The two gunmen were also killed:
Six people, including a police officer and two suspected gunmen, have been killed in a gun battle at a Jewish supermarket in New Jersey.
Read more on this story here: https://t.co/RUAOuTy5lT pic.twitter.com/MhjSKcQQZW
— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 11, 2019
We’ll keep you posted.
Update 1. This explains the chronology of events yesterday:
So far, the authorities have not identified the shooters, who were killed in the firefight. None of the three victims inside the store have been publicly identified by officials. The Jersey City police officer who was killed was identified on Tuesday as Detective Joe Seals.
— Laura Walker ⚖??? ??????? (@LauraWalkerKC) December 11, 2019
Detective Seals approached the two suspects, a man and a woman, who were inside a U-Haul van at a cemetery near the kosher market because the van had been linked to a homicide over the weekend.
— Laura Walker ⚖??? ??????? (@LauraWalkerKC) December 11, 2019
Video surveillance footage shows the suspects shooting the detective and then driving away and ending up in front of the kosher market where they park and enter the store guns firing, a law enforcement official said. No details on the homicide linked to the van were given.
— Laura Walker ⚖??? ??????? (@LauraWalkerKC) December 11, 2019
But the NYT is reporting that one of the suspects did publish anti-Semitic and anti-police posts online:
Jersey City Shooting: Suspect Published Anti-Semitic and Anti-Police Posts, Official Says https://t.co/UGMmulwGFm
— Laura Walker ⚖??? ??????? (@LauraWalkerKC) December 11, 2019
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