The funeral brought to an end a tumultuous, tear-stained week for Jersey City, and brought home to yet another community the painful question of what American must do to stop mass shootings.
JERSEY CITY, N.J. – As a cold, persistent rain pelted this wounded city Tuesday, thousands of police and residents gathered to bid farewell to the detective killed inThe body of Jersey City Police Det. Joseph Seals was brought by hearse to St. Aeden’s Roman Catholic Church for a funeral Mass presided over by Cardinal Joseph Tobin.
Seals' son, Adrian Junco-Seals, 15, a sophomore at St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, eulogized his stepfather, who he said was "a great man in and out of work."Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop called Seals"one of our best officers in the entire department." "Those of you working in blue know what that means," Kelly said. "Joe lost his life fighting evil – gang nonsense, drug wars, shootings and, most of all, hate violence."
Besides the murders of Seals and the three people at the grocery, Anderson and Graham were suspects in the beating death of a livery driver whose body was found Dec. 7 in Bayonne. A video from a nearby surveillance camera released by police shows Anderson, who also carried a 9 mm pistol, opening the driver’s door and firing his AR-15-style rifle into the grocery. Graham followed, carrying a 12-gauge shotgun and another 9 mm handgun, police said.
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