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Estiben Alegria-Hurtado had a fight with family that was allegedly mostly over when police arrived. Police arrived and shot and killed him. His family demands BWC footage, alleges he was a kind and supportive man and that the confrontation did not warrant a shooting. Alegria-Hurtado was a recent immigrant from Colombia who had come to the US to support his family.

https://pix11.com/news/new-jersey-family-demands-answers-after-officer-involved-shooting-kills-family-member/

https://www.kktv.com/2023/08/15/body-camera-video-released-deadly-police-shooting-new-jersey/

US Marshals arrived to serve a warrant for arrest to a man wanted for killing a woman in Orlando. He was shot and killed in the process of arrest.

https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2023/07/09/orlando-murder-suspect-killed-in-new-jersey-shootout

https://pix11.com/news/local-news/new-jersey/nj-attorney-general-investigating-fatal-officer-involved-shooting-in-jersey-city-ag/

Shortly before 5 p.m. on 06/22/2023, an off-duty New Jersey State Police officer in an unmarked vehicle began chasing an individual on a motorcycle in Springfield. Police escalated the chase to greater 100 miles per hour until the motorcyclist collided with a third-party vehicle near the intersection of Route 206 and Jacksonville-JobstownRoad. The unnamed 24-year-old male motorcyclist was killed as a result of the police chase crash.It is unknown whether the deceased motorcyclist knew the unmarked car was a police officer hunting them.

https://patch.com/new-jersey/moorestown/1-dead-nj-police-chase-crash-state-officials-say

https://6abc.com/motorcyclist-killed-motorcycle-crash-springfield-nj/13414852/

Walik Shaw shot and killed a seven-year-old child and a man in a Newark home. Newark responded and Shaw approached police on Elizabeth Avenue near Watson Avenue. Police shot and killed him.

https://abc7ny.com/nj-shooting-crime-newark-child-shot/13211002/

Newark PD officers Steven Ferreira and Ryan Castro responded to a report of someone having been shot. Police claim that when they arrived, Everett Rand was seen running away with a gun. They chased him, shot and killed him. No more detail are available.

https://abc7ny.com/newark-deadly-shooting-child-killed-police/13211002/

https://newjersey.news12.com/authorities-identify-man-child-killed-in-may-3-shooting-in-newark

https://www.njoag.gov/update-attorney-generals-office-releases-identities-of-the-decedent-and-officers-in-police-involved-shooting-in-newark/

https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2023/05/18/man-fatally-shot-in-officer-involved-shooting-in-newark-identified/

Old Bridge PD responded to a 911 call regarding a fightin Laurence Harbor in which one man was killed by officer Christopher Hammel. Police did not reveal more about this killing.

https://www.rlsmedia.com/article/update-identity-officer-decedent-revealed-fatal-old-bridge-police-involved-shooting

https://www.njoag.gov/update-attorney-generals-office-releases-identities-of-the-decedent-and-officer-in-police-involved-shooting-in-laurence-harbor/

https://www.rlsmedia.com/article/person-killed-middlesex-countys-cheesequake-state-park-police-involved-shooting

https://abc7ny.com/police-involved-shooting-man-killed-911-call-dispute/13185115/

https://newjersey.news12.com/authorities-release-video-from-day-of-deadly-police-shooting-in-old-bridge

A Pemberton Township police officer attempted to stop a motorcyclist in connection with a criminal investigation and escalated a chase. The motorcycle hit a civilian vehicle, crashed and the motorcyclist John R. Nutt died.

https://www.nj.com/news/2023/04/fatal-motorcycle-crash-that-occurred-during-police-chase-under-investigation-ag-says.html

https://www.burlingtoncountytimes.com/story/news/2023/04/24/pemberton-fatal-motorcycle-crash-during-chase/70147475007/

https://www.nj.com/news/2023/07/authorities-id-motorcyclist-killed-during-police-chase.html
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Phillipsburg PDwere sent on a call where a woman in an apparent domestic violence incidentwas shot in the torso and was found by responding police on the sidewalk along Hanover Street. The male person then fired at a town police officer, striking him in the leg.

https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/phillipsburg/2023/04/police-officer-and-woman-shot-person-dead-in-phillipsburg-shooting-officials-say.html

https://newjersey.news12.com/prosecutor-phillipsburg-police-officer-woman-shot-person-dead

Deptford Township PD tried"a pedestrian stop" on Mitchell Negron Jr. but he allegedly fled on foot. Police engaged in a fight with him with both sides firing shots.Negron was killed by the officer. Officer Robert Shisler was injured and survived.

https://www.njoag.gov/attorney-generals-office-investigating-fatal-police-involved-shooting-in-deptford/

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/weapon-found-deptford-police-shooting-145309039.html

https://www.njoag.gov/update-attorney-generals-office-releases-additional-information-in-fatal-police-involved-shooting-in-deptford-in-which-officer-was-wounded-hospitalized/

https://wfin.com/fox-national-news/new-jersey-police-officer-wounded-man-killed-following-chase/

https://www.inquirer.com/news/bobby-shisler-death-deptford-township-police-mitchell-negron-shooting-20230507.html

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/police-officer-injured-in-shootout-in-south-jersey/3519175/

https://www.njoag.gov/update-attorney-generals-office-releases-additional-information-in-fatal-police-involved-shooting-in-deptford-in-which-officer-was-wounded-hospitalized/

https://www.nj.com/gloucester-county/2023/06/ag-closes-investigation-into-fatal-shooting-of-deptford-cop-and-man-he-chased.html

When a homeowner wanted to sell his house, they began forceful eviction against a paying tenant. The tenant was a petsitter who had 30 rescue cats on property. The cats were reportedly well cared for and the woman refused to abandon them during the eviction and resisted the eviction. SWAT arrived and in the stressful siege upon her, the woman allegedly set her house on fire. She died in the fire. No live or deceased cats were found.

https://www.app.com/story/news/local/emergencies/2023/03/01/roosevelt-nj-house-fire-woman-faced-eviction-swat-team-responds/69959183007/

Najee Seabrooks, a member of the Paterson healing Collective, was experiencing a mental health crisis and was in the area of Mill and Ellison streets in Paterson. He was shot and killed by officers Anzore Tsay and Jose Hernandez.

https://www.njoag.gov/attorney-generals-office-investigating-fatal-police-involved-shooting-in-paterson-2023-0303/

https://www.njoag.gov/update-attorney-generals-office-releases-the-identities-of-the-decedent-and-officers-in-the-police-involved-shooting-in-paterson/

https://gothamist.com/news/dozens-of-nj-groups-want-feds-to-investigate-of-paterson-police-after-latest-shooting-death

https://patersontimes.com/2023/03/03/one-dead-in-officer-involved-shooting-in-paterson/

https://www.northjersey.com/story/opinion/editorials/2023/03/10/paterson-nj-najee-seabrooks-police-shooting-editorial/69991995007/

https://gothamist.com/news/nj-attorney-general-releases-body-cam-footage-following-fatal-paterson-shooting

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/paterson/sections/police-and-fire/articles/paterson-man-shot-dead-by-police-was-in-midst-of-mental-health-crisis-anti-violence-coalition-says

The NJ State Police and the U.S. Marshals Service shot and killed Kyle Foggy, 29, of Cherry Hillat a South Jersey rest stop off of the New Jersey Turnpike’s Clara Barton Service Area in the Pedricktown section of Oldmans Township in Salem County during arrest for the murder of a woman the week prior whom he had been dating.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey/new-jersey-turnpike-rest-stop-shooting-kyle-foggy-20230309.html

https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/camden/news/fugitive-pursued-for-womans-murder-shot-himself-at-nj-turnpike-rest-stop-state-ag-says/858509/

https://www.njoag.gov/update-death-of-man-at-nj-turnpike-determined-to-be-the-result-of-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound/

ort Lee PD received a call regarding a man with a knife threatening people in a residence and throwing pots and pans out of the window. When police arrived, they found Mohamed Bounaouar who allegedly had a knife. Officers Gabriel Avella, John Gallo, Stephen Domenick and Matthew Lyle shot and killed him with an unknown number of shots.

https://www.njoag.gov/update-ags-office-identifies-decedent-officers-in-fatal-police-involved-shooting-on-february-4-in-fort-lee-n-j/

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/fort-lee-police-involved-shooting-man-barricaded/

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/orlando-shooting-9-year-old-and-tv-news-staffer-killed-keith-melvin-moses-charged/

https://www.njoag.gov/update-ags-office-identifies-decedent-officers-in-fatal-police-involved-shooting-on-february-4-in-fort-lee-n-j/

https://www.nj.com/bergen/2023/02/officials-identify-man-killed-by-police-in-nj-home.html

https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/fortlee/news/update-knife-wielding-condo-visitor-shot-in-encounter-with-fort-lee-pd-ag-confirms/856608/

Daniel Nevius Sr., 55, reportedly drove into a parked car and showed a rifle. Officers arrived at a residence on Fox Run Road in Deptford, Gloucester and Deptford Police Officer Luke Ivey fired his service weapon at 1:22 p.m. killing Mr. Nevius. No officers were charged.

https://www.njoag.gov/update-attorney-generals-office-conducting-investigation-of-fatal-police-involved-shooting-in-deptford/

https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/local/south-jersey/2023/05/01/deptford-police-shooting-daniel-nevius-luke-ivey-rifle/70165237007/

Newark PD chased Raul De Jesus “in connection with a criminal matter,” the AG stated.During the chase, DeJesus collapsed and fell from a Route 280 embankment at mile marker 12.8 and was pronounced dead at 4:41 p.m. on Jan. 5.

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/newark/sections/police-and-fire/articles/newark-police-chase-ends-in-man-s-death-state-ag-investigates

https://patch.com/new-jersey/newarknj/newark-family-wants-answers-after-man-dies-while-running-police

Police attempted to serve a warrant for the shooting of Allandale’s girlfriend when they encountered him with a gun and shot and killed him.

https://bronx.news12.com/ag-police-officers-shoot-and-kill-man-accused-of-shooting-woman-in-elmwood

https://wrnjradio.com/ags-office-investigating-fatal-police-involved-shooting-at-morris-county-motel-on-new-years-eve/

https://www.njoag.gov/update-attorney-generals-office-releases-video-footage-from-fatal-police-involved-shooting-at-pine-brook-motel-on-new-years-eve/

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/montville/sections/police-and-fire/articles/police-shoot-murder-suspect-dead-in-pine-brook-on-new-year-s-eve

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/bergen/elmwood-park/2023/02/10/video-of-deadly-police-raid-on-elmwood-park-shooting-suspect-released/69890758007/

https://www.njoag.gov/update-attorney-generals-office-releases-video-footage-from-fatal-police-involved-shooting-at-pine-brook-motel-on-new-years-eve/

The New Jersey Attorney General's Office investigated a chase that stretched from Marlboro to Old Bridge on Nov. 9, 2022. One motorist died in a crash at the end of the chase.Police chased an allegedly stolen car until it crashed, resulted in the death of bystander ArturoTlapa Luna. Marlboro police officer Sgt. Greg Arrone escalated a chase of the car that ended after the car hit several other vehicles on Route 9 south in Old Bridge in the area of Spring Valley Road shortly after 2 a.m. The occupant of one of the bystander cars, 33-year-old Freehold resident Arturo Tlapa-Luna, was killed in the crash. His wife, father and two daughters were also in the car and suffered severe injuries but survived.

https://www.nj.com/middlesex/2023/01/investigators-release-video-of-stolen-car-police-chase-that-ended-in-fatal-crash.html

https://patch.com/new-jersey/marlboro-coltsneck/audio-video-released-update-fatal-marlboro-police-chase-probe

https://www.njoag.gov/update-ags-office-releases-video-footage-audio-of-9-1-1-call-and-police-radio-communications-in-old-bridge-fatal-crash-following-police-pursuit/

Video:
https://njoag.app.box.com/s/rsdblhfawsx97pi0faw2s9buy2kwqkdl

Cherry Hill PD responded to a mental health wellness check. Police claim that he “reached for a gun” and shot himself while an officer shot and killed him.

https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/local/2022/10/12/attorney-general-investigating-fatal-shooting-by-cherry-hill-police/69559195007/

https://www.njoag.gov/update-attorney-generals-office-identifies-decedent-and-officer-in-fatality-that-occurred-during-a-police-encounter-in-cherry-hill/

Hui Zhang was involved in a vehicle accident and police claim that he was seen fleeing the car with a handgun. Paterson PD arrived and shot and killed him. The “gun” had been a plastic replica. He had been unarmed.

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/paterson/sections/police-and-fire/articles/attorney-general-s-office-conducting-investigation-of-police-involved-shooting-in-paterson

https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/lyndhurst/news/carjacker-shot-by-paterson-detective-was-armed-with-blank-pistol-nj-attorney-general/847123/

https://patch.com/new-jersey/wayne/imitation-gun-wielded-man-shot-police-nj-attorney-general

Englewood PD were sent to a call of a domestic violence incident. They allegedly found victims of stabbings and a man holding a knife. Police tasered, then Officer Luana Sharpe shot and killed Bernard Placide.

https://fox56.com/news/local/officer-involved-shooting-thursday-leads-to-investigation-in-monroe-county

https://nj1015.com/man-stabbed-3-victims-before-fatal-englewood-nj-police-involved-shooting-ag-says/

https://newjersey.news12.com/state-ag-s-office-releases-bodycam-footage-of-fatal-shooting-by-police-in-englewood

https://patch.com/new-jersey/mahwah/body-cam-video-released-englewood-officer-involved-shooting

Thadius Wilder, a 35-year-old father of five from Passaic, was found drowned after last being seen running from police. His sister said that he was sitting on a bench at the Passaic public housing project on Aspen Place when two uniformed officers approached him with an arrest warrant for dealing drugs.
Wilder ran, apparently afraid of going back to prison. Police never searched the river nearby. Wilder’s sister found eyewitnesses who said he had “ended up in the water.” She told police who denied this possibility. Community members searched for him and saw his body floating in the river. The family had to notify police who had refused to search the river. His body was retrieved later but the family had been left to search for him without help from police.

https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/southpassaic/news/body-of-man-chased-by-police-pulled-from-passaic-river-two-days-later/839628/

A group of Asbury Park police officers investigating what sounded like gunfire tried to traffic-stop a vehicle in the area of Atkins Avenue and escalated a chase. The car fled and crashed into a tree about a mile two people fled while the other two occupants were seriously injured in the crash. One has since died and the other is in critical condition.

https://www.nj.com/news/2022/06/1-dead-three-injured-after-vehicle-fleeing-cops-crashes-into-tree.html

A group of Asbury Park police officers investigating what sounded like gunfire tried to traffic-stop a vehicle in the area of Atkins Avenue and escalated a chase. The car fled and crashed into a tree about a mile two people fled while the other two occupants were seriously injured in the crash. One has since died and the other is in critical condition.

https://www.nj.com/news/2022/06/1-dead-three-injured-after-vehicle-fleeing-cops-crashes-into-tree.html

Jersey City police arrived at a domestic dispute and allege that a man with a gun had a woman in a headlock. Police shot and killed him. Officer Omar Polanco was cleared for the killing of Joseph Robertson but indicted for cannabis use.

https://hudsoncountyview.com/n-j-attorney-generals-office-ids-officer-decedent-involved-in-fatal-jersey-city-shooting/

https://www.nj.com/news/2022/06/video-footage-released-in-police-shooting-of-jersey-city-man.html

Junting Pao Was local restaurant owner outside of his restaurant making a delivery when Paterson police ran a high speed chase into him. He was killed and several other pedestrians were injured. The crash occurred only two days after pursuit laws were loosened, allowing police to chase stolen cars. Police alleged that the car they were chasing may have been stolen.

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/passaic/paterson/2022/06/02/paterson-nj-junting-pan-lawyer-police-chase-preceded-fatal-crash/7452692001/

Officer Brandon Taylor and Michael Kupchak chased a vehicle driven by Gregory Dukes on May 10 until it crashed. Dukes and his 47-year-old passenger Cecil Richardson crashed and were both killed.

https://www.cbs58.com/news/man-dies-in-single-vehicle-crash-following-greenfield-pd-pursuit

https://www.fox6now.com/news/greenfield-police-pursuit-fatal-crash-13th-layton

https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/southwest/news/greenfield/2022/05/31/milwaukee-man-dies-crash-following-pursuit-greenfield-police/7454697001/

Officer Brandon Taylor and Michael Kupchak chased a vehicle driven by Gregory Dukes on May 10 until it crashed. Dukes and his 47-year-old passenger Cecil Richardson crashed and were both killed.

https://www.cbs58.com/news/man-dies-in-single-vehicle-crash-following-greenfield-pd-pursuit

https://www.fox6now.com/news/greenfield-police-pursuit-fatal-crash-13th-layton

https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/southwest/news/greenfield/2022/05/31/milwaukee-man-dies-crash-following-pursuit-greenfield-police/7454697001/

Officers Daniel Bradley and Joseph Elquomos were sent on a call for Merrill Rambarose who was reportedly threatening someone with an axe. The man was seen in front of his house with an axe and ran toward police. They shot and killed him.

https://www.njoag.gov/updated-ags-office-investigating-fatal-officer-involved-shooting-in-edison-n-j/

https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/cliffsidepark/police-fire/body-cam-recordings-of-fatal-edison-police-involved-shooting-released/832422/

https://centraljersey.com/2022/05/13/video-footage-released-by-a-g-shows-axe-wielding-man-charge-at-edison-police-prior-to-fatal-shooting/

https://www.rlsmedia.com/article/video-footage-released-edison-fatal-police-involved-shooting

Middlesex County deputies were allegedly executing an eviction order. A number of other agencies joined in. They returned again to execute a search warrant for a gun. They then attempted to arrest Louis for unlawful firearm possession, in addition to forcing the eviction issue. Police claim that, he “approached him aggressively, had a knife and an officer tased and another shot and killed him.

https://connecticut.news12.com/state-ag-man-killed-in-police-involved-shooting-outside-plainsboro-apartment-complex

https://news.yahoo.com/police-involved-shooting-plainsboro-n-223740546.html

https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/middlesex/news/authorities-id-man-killed-in-police-involved-shooting-in-plainsboro/826818/

https://news.yahoo.com/plainsboro-man-tased-being-fatally-173338515.html

https://www.rlsmedia.com/article/video-footage-related-fatal-police-involved-shooting-plainsboro-released

Keansburg PD were called about a pharmacy robbery. They arrived, pointed military rifles and many semiautomatic weapons at a man with a knife who charged officers and was shot dead. Police officers Jillian Putkowski, Christopher Rogan, and Richard Johnson shot and killed Sutton.

https://www.app.com/story/news/crime/jersey-mayhem/2022/02/03/keansburg-nj-police-shooting-involved-knifepoint-hostage/6653936001/

https://www.ahherald.com/2022/01/11/update-ags-office-investigating-fatal-police-involved-shooting-in-keansburg/

https://nj1015.com/videos-released-nj-police-shoot-man-who-took-hostage-at-pharmacy/

Millville PD were called to a domestic disturbance, arrived and found Daniel Ackley outside with a machete, alleged that he walked towards them and shot and killed him. The officers were cleared by a grand jury.

https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/state-grand-jury-declines-to-criminally-charge-officer-involved-in-fatal-shooting/

https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-courts/millville-officer-charges-shooting-knife-wielding-man/article_ae83cd0a-272a-11ee-ad45-afacb12b8d74.html

https://nj1015.com/troubled-iraq-veteran-in-nj-goaded-cops-before-he-was-shot-to-death/

https://dailyvoice.com/pennsylvania/cumberland/news/chilling-video-relentless-knife-wielding-nj-war-vet-goads-police-before-hes-shot/824918/