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Shooters may have been targeting 50 children in yeshiva, Jersey City mayor suggests
Source: NJ Advance Media
Shooters may have been targeting 50 children in yeshiva, Jersey City mayor suggests
Updated 12:00 PM;Today 8:33 AM
By Jeff Goldman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com and Rebecca Panico | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said Friday it’s his opinion that the shooters who killed a police officer and three civilians on Tuesday afternoon had an even more sinister objective - killing students at a religious school next door.
“My opinion is that as more info comes out it’ll become increasingly clear that the target was the 50 children at the Yeshiva attached to that store,” the mayor wrote on Twitter just after 8 a.m. “We will never know 100% but the doorway to the yeshiva was 3 feet away (and) it seems he goes in that direction 1st.”
Authorities say David Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50, shot and killed a Jersey City police detective in a nearby cemetery before traveling in a van to the grocery store on Martin Luther King Drive, where they gunned down two Orthodox Jews as well as an employee. A fourth person escaped.
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Updated 12:00 PM;Today 8:33 AM
By Jeff Goldman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com and Rebecca Panico | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said Friday it’s his opinion that the shooters who killed a police officer and three civilians on Tuesday afternoon had an even more sinister objective - killing students at a religious school next door.
“My opinion is that as more info comes out it’ll become increasingly clear that the target was the 50 children at the Yeshiva attached to that store,” the mayor wrote on Twitter just after 8 a.m. “We will never know 100% but the doorway to the yeshiva was 3 feet away (and) it seems he goes in that direction 1st.”
Authorities say David Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50, shot and killed a Jersey City police detective in a nearby cemetery before traveling in a van to the grocery store on Martin Luther King Drive, where they gunned down two Orthodox Jews as well as an employee. A fourth person escaped.
Link to tweet
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Read more: https://www.nj.com/news/2019/12/shooters-were-targeting-50-children-in-yeshiva-next-to-grocery-store-jersey-city-mayor-speculates.html
