Six dead in Jersey City shoot-out near kosher grocery in US
The New York police department is on high alert at Jewish areas in the city with the mayor citing ‘a growing pattern of violent anti-Semitism’
11 December 2019 - 13:34
Atlanta/New York/Culver City — Police in the New York metropolitan area were put on high alert to protect Jewish neighbourhoods after an hours-long gun battle with two men around a Jersey City kosher market that killed six people, authorities said.
The police shoot-out with two men armed with high-powered rifles erupted after midday on Tuesday in Jersey City, New Jersey’s second-largest municipality directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan. The six dead include three civilians, one police officer and both gunmen, authorities said...
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