Jersey City police fatally shoot man after he shot at officers, Mayor Fulop says
A man is dead after opening fire at a Jersey City police officer early Tuesday morning, Mayor Steven Fulop said.
It happened at around 1 a.m. near a home on the 300 block of Bergen Avenue.
Fulop said street crime officers observed a man, later identified by family members as 27-year-old Teshawn Rogers, acting suspiciously with "a bulge in his clothing consistent with a possible firearm."
Officers approached Rogers, and he opened fire, Fulop said. An officer returned fire, hitting him. Rogers was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police recovered a weapon at the scene, according to Fulop.
Investigators were in and out of a home on the block, and six bullet holes were seen in a fence. The owner said he had nothing to do with the shooting, other than his property being damaged. Police are reviewing his surveillance video.
The New Jersey Attorney General's Office will investigate the shooting, as per standard procedure.
"That shouldn't have happened into my grandson"
Darshell Robinson, Rogers' grandmother, is demanding answers.
"They shot him down in the street. They killed him and would not tell me what happened," Robinson said.
She said Rogers was a father who recently moved to Texas, and was back in Jersey City visiting family.
"He has a daughter, 6. She was at the house, but she don't know what happened to him," Robinson said.
She said she didn't know how to break it to the child that her father is gone.
"I don't know what happened, but we gotta find [out]. Somebody gotta answer. That shouldn't have happened into my grandson," Robinson said.
Witnesses described what they saw and heard.
"All of a sudden I hear this pop, pop, pop, pop, and I said, 'Oh man, they shot and killed somebody else?'" one said.
"I just know somebody was laying on the ground right there, but I don't know where it started," another said.