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Details remain scare in apparent police shooting in Bergen County, N.J.

As the investigation into Wednesday night's deadly police shooting in Bergen County, New Jersey, continues, a community is dealing with the aftermath.

The gunfire rang out just after 5 p.m. in Moonachie. Video from Chopper 2 showed the scene after a car crashed into a staircase in front of an industrial food production facility on West Commercial Avenue.

Officials said a New Jersey state trooper fatally shot a man there.

The New Jersey Attorney General's Office in now in charge of the investigation, which is standard in the case of a fatal police shooting.

The AG's office has not disclosed what happened or the reason for the shooting. 

Officials have also not released the name of the man who was shot and killed, or the name of the trooper who was said to have pulled the trigger.

People who work in the industrial area described what they saw.

"I just see like 10 different cop cars surrounding the area. I see like a few helicopters flying in the air. I tried to ask what happened, but there was no answer," witness Matthew Viera said. "I remember searching it like a few hours after and I found out that someone got shot. I was like, 'Oh wow.' I didn't hear anything."

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