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3 victims named in Jersey City shooting attack, mayor says mkt. 'targeted'
[JPost] An eyewitness has confirmed that two of the civilians murdered in Tuesday's Jersey City shooting attack are members of the local Chassidic community: Leah Minda Ferencz, who owned the store with her husband, and Moshe Deutsch, 24, Chabad.org reported. A third victim was identified earlier as veteran police officer Joe Seals, father of five, by the mayor of Jersey City, Steven Fulop.
The attack is now being investigated as a hate crime. According to Fulop, those who opened fire in a Jewish supermarket on Tuesday "targeted the location they attacked."
...The officers arrived at the kosher market where suspects opened fire with long guns, according to ABC News. At least one suspect allegedly continued firing at responders as they retreated.
I don't know if it belongs in WOT, but - until we know more ...
48 hour rule
I'll take frequently used Islamic names for $600. Alex.
| Update from the Daily Mail at 11:25 a.m. ET: |
Jersey City shooter posted anti-Semitic bile online before going on 'targeted' rampage with FEMALE partner in stolen U-Haul that ended in deadly siege at Jewish supermarket
- Francine Graham and David Anderson opened fire on Detective Joseph Seals at 12.30pm in a cemetery in Jersey City
- Anderson had been a member of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement made famous by the Covington Catholic High School kerfuffle
- Before the rampage he had published anti-Semitic and anti-police posts on social media
- Seals was investigating the murder of livery cab driver Michael Rumberger, who was found dead on Saturday
- After killing the cop, the gunmen drove a stolen U-Haul to JC Kosher Supermarket nearby
- They then barricaded themselves inside with a large amount of ammunition and engaged in a two-hour shootout with police and SWAT teams
- It ended with SWAT teams ramming the storefront; once they got inside, they found the two gunmen dead and three innocent people also killed
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-12-11 |
