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6 Dead Following All-Out Gun Battle Between Police, Shooters That Held Jersey City In Its Grips For Hours

The confrontation between the armed suspects and local, state and federal law enforcement officers turned a residential neighborhood into a battle zone, with videos taken by witnesses capturing relentless blasts from guns. Jersey City's mayor said that officials believed the shooters had 鈥渢argeted the location they attacked," which included a kosher market.

The shooting began outside a cemetery in Jersey City, N.J., on Tuesday when a 40-year-old detective tried to intercept two people who were suspects in a homicide. They opened fire and fled, speeding off in a rented truck that had been reported stolen and leaving the detective dead on the ground. They drove about a mile, stopping in a Hasidic neighborhood where dozens of young ultra-Orthodox families have relocated to in recent years. With traffic at a standstill as the police rushed to answer 911 calls about the shooting at the cemetery, the pair invaded a kosher market. (Barron and Gold, 12/10)

Authorities initially said there was 鈥渘o indication鈥 of terrorism and suggested that the shooters stormed the Jewish market at random. But hours after he addressed reporters on Tuesday, Fulop said on Twitter that an 鈥渋nitial investigation,鈥 which remains ongoing, has led them to believe 鈥渢he active shooters targeted the location they attacked.鈥 He did not elaborate, but said police have no indication of additional threats. (Thebault, 12/10)

Video shot by residents recorded loud volleys of gunfire reverberating along one of the city鈥檚 main streets and showed a long line of law enforcement officers pointing guns as they advanced, yelling to bystanders, 鈥淐lear the street! Get out of the way!鈥 鈥淚t鈥檚 like firecrackers going off,鈥 said Andy Patel, who works at a liquor store about three blocks away. 鈥淭hey were shooting like crazy. ... The cops were clearing everyone off the streets.鈥 (Porter, 12/10)

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Gov. Phil Murphy, who canceled a trip to a fundraiser in Washington, both arrived in Jersey City on Tuesday evening to speak to police and local officials. In brief remarks, the governor acknowledged 鈥渢he selfless work of all members of law enforcement who responded to this incident not knowing what they were entering or even if they would make it out.鈥 (Hutchins, 12/10)

In other gun violence news 鈥

When a student recently opened fire at a California high school, staff members did what they were trained to do. They shepherded students to safe spaces, barricaded doors, pulled shades 鈥 and, when gunfire struck, used techniques adapted from the battlefield to save lives. The staffers used two bleeding-control kits in the Nov. 14 shooting in Santa Clarita, in which two students were killed and three injured before the gunman fatally shot himself, said Dave Caldwell, spokesman for the William S. Hart Union High School District. The kits, a recent addition to the district northwest of Los Angeles, are equipped with tourniquets, compression bandages and blood-clotting hemostatic gauze to prevent excessive blood loss. (West, 12/10)

Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo called out prominent Texas Republicans on Monday for opposing gun restriction legislation to close the so-called "boyfriend loophole" after one of his officers was killed over the weekend responding to a domestic violence call. Arturo Solis, who according to The Houston Chronicle had a previous misdemeanor domestic violence charge against a former girlfriend, should have never had access to a gun in the first place, Acevedo said in a press conference video. (Fernandez, 12/10)

Pushing back against arguments raised by Attorney General Ashley Moody and the National Rifle Association, gun-control supporters contend the Florida Supreme Court should sign off on a proposed constitutional amendment aimed at blocking possession of assault weapons. The political committee Ban Assault Weapons NOW, the gun-control group Brady and a coalition of 13 cities filed briefs Friday saying that the proposal meets legal tests to go before voters. (Saunders, 12/10)

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