A shooting at a New Jersey kosher market Tuesday afternoon left six dead including one police detective and both suspects. According to a statement released by Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop on Wednesday, the attack “should be viewed as a hate crime.”
According to NBC New York, Tuesday afternoon, Detective Joseph Seals, who has served for 15 years on the force, identified a U-Haul truck believed to be tied to a murder of a livery driver over the weekend. Upon approaching the vehicle, a suspect reportedly got out of the truck and began firing at the officer.
The shooters then drove the truck up to the JK Kosher market where surveillance cameras show them immediately open fire on shoppers.
Police engaged in gun fire with the suspects, who were later found dead inside of the store along with other victims.
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal later shared that a pipe bomb was recovered at the scene.
USA Today reports that officials were initially hesitant to classify the act as a hate crime.
Then, on Wednesday, several media outlets, including the New York Times, uncovered that one of the suspects had shared anti-Semitic posts on social media. The Associated Press also reportedly spoke with an unidentified law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly on the shooting. The official identified the suspects as Black Hebrew Israelites – a group…
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