***Updated with Identity of Decedent***
Attorney General’s Office Investigating Fatal Police-Involved Shooting on Garden State Parkway in Bass River, N.J.
BASS RIVER, N.J. – The Attorney General’s Office is conducting an investigation of a fatal shooting involving the New Jersey State Police that occurred at approximately 6:30 a.m. yesterday, May 23, on the Garden State Parkway in Bass River, N.J. One male civilian sustained fatal injuries.
The decedent has been identified as Maurice S. Gordon, 28, of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
The investigation is being conducted by the Integrity Bureau within the Office of Public Integrity and Accountability and the New Jersey State Police Major Crime Bureau.
This investigation is being conducted pursuant to a law enacted in January 2019, P.L.2019, c.1, which requires that the Attorney General’s Office conduct investigations of a person’s death that occurs during an encounter with a law enforcement officer acting in the officer’s official capacity or while the decedent is in custody.
The investigation is ongoing and no further information is being released at this time.
how sad
Hmmm I wonder why he got shot …
Kévin Costa benny
Melanie Nau Keating no i digged a little lol
NJSP is nothing but professional. This isn’t Minnesota, i know the real story but cant comment due to a on going investigation. This one wait for the facts. There is a dash cam video.
Travis Walker nothing but professional? This was the law enforcement agency that was so desperate to get their fingers in a guy’s asshole that they couldn’t even wait for a warrant…
Tim MacDonald being in the coast guard I know you were jealous that finger wasn’t in your butt. Btw stop burning the burgers at McDonald’s in Stafford. Still butt hurt your wife left you for a trooper ????????????
Jim Whales if you support bad police so much, how about you take a trip out to Minnesota this weekend? I’m sure you’d fit in really well
Well aren’t you special? Why would you comment that you know the real story? You can’t just not say anything?
Travis Walker if you dont work for NJSP you are not bound by any confidentiality clause.
Lynette Marie Because its under investigation!!
Carlos Martinho I have family members so yes I am.
Travis Walker I feel ya.
Technically you are protecting them but you arent legally bound.
But I get it
Who was the person??
Some benny from Poughkeepsie
Some people him Maurice, wheetwooo
John Boyer dahell??
There were two police shootings that day the other in Paterson and they were free with all sorts of information but this one is complete silence.