Grand Jury Indicts 4 Suspects In Short Hills Mall Slaying Last Year
Four men were indicted Wednesday on charges that they shot and killed a man during a carjacking at the Short Hills Mall in New Jersey last December.
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Four men were indicted Wednesday on charges that they shot and killed a man during a carjacking at the Short Hills Mall in New Jersey last December.
State authorities say a northern New Jersey man fabricated a story about being carjacked so he could get about $38,500 from his insurer.
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Carjacking has become disturbingly common in the Tri-State Area, with hundreds of cases terrifying drivers.
The incident took place at around 3:30 p.m., when officers received a description of a vehicle following a robbery, police told CBS 2.
Two 16-year-old boys were arrested Tuesday and accused of trying to carjack a woman at the Garden State Plaza Mall in Paramus, N.J.
Floribert Nava, of Wildwood, pleaded guilty in February, admitting that she used a fake gun on March 22, 2013, to carjack the then-17-year-old victim.
The woman whose husband was shot and killed in a carjacking at the Short Hills Mall in New Jersey in December has filed a lawsuit.
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Millburn Police Chief Gregory Weber said in a statement that the young lawyer received medical treatment within minutes of the shooting.
Questions have been mounting about the delayed response time by EMS crews to a deadly shooting at the Short Hills Mall in New Jersey last month.
Hanif Thompson, 29, of Irvington; Karif Ford, 31, of Newark; Basim Henry, 32, of Newark; and Kevin Roberts, 33, of Newark, face a series of charges, including murder.
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The sport-utility vehicle that the suspects used as a getaway vehicle in the deadly carjacking and shooting at the Short Hills Mall last weekend actually belonged to a suspect's mother, according to a published report.
Police and federal authorities captured four suspects overnight in the shooting that killed a Hoboken attorney at the Short Hills Mall last weekend.
Services for Dustin Friedland, 30, were held Wednesday at Beth Am Shalom in Lakewood.
Services for Dustin Friedland, 30, are scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Beth Am Shalom in Lakewood.
Prosecutors identified the victim Monday as 30-year-old Dustin Friedland from Hoboken.
The officer, identified only as a 23-year veteran of the force, tried to stop the suspect. But when Brent appeared to be reaching for a weapon, the officer fired one shot from his service weapon.
Carjackings have been on the rise because new technology has made them virtually impossible to hot wire. There is also a growing market for nice cars.
The incident took place in Bed-Stuy near the corner of Fulton Street and Verona Place, authorities said.
New Jersey State Police don't want the public to be alarmed, but they say there have been recent carjackings by people posing as undercover cops along the New Jersey Turnpike.
A 35-year-old man driving a Mercedes was stopped at a traffic light when five armed men, four with handguns and one with a shotgun, pulled him out of the car, police said.
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Jersey Shore towns are making preparations as a nor'easter approaches with potential to drop several inches of rain and create high waves.
The blast occurred at Accurate Energetic Systems, according to the Hickman County Sheriff's Office.
The crash impacted southbound traffic on I-287 getting onto the NJ Turnpike at Exit 10 in Edison.
Police didn't release many details about the incident, only saying the suspect is not related to the victim.
Police didn't release many details about the incident, only saying the suspect is not related to the victim.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, the MTA and NYPD said Thursday that without those funds, the system is left vulnerable to new terror attacks.
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Bishop Pedro Bismarck Chau's journey of faith started when he fled Nicaragua in 1983, sneaking across the southern border into the U.S.
Jersey Shore towns are making preparations as a nor'easter approaches with potential to drop several inches of rain and create high waves.
The crash impacted southbound traffic on I-287 getting onto the NJ Turnpike at Exit 10 in Edison.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul, the MTA and NYPD said Thursday that without those funds, the system is left vulnerable to new terror attacks.
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New York leaders blasted the Justice Department after the state's top law enforcement official was indicted.
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In handwritten notes he left behind, the gunman repeatedly referenced CTE and asked for his brain to be studied.
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The tractor-trailer overturned on I-287 on the ramp leading onto the turnpike.
