The chaotic, hours-long police standoff that ended with four people dead, including a police officer, in Jersey City on Tuesday began at a cemetery, authorities say.
There, the shooters killed a Jersey City police detective, authorities believe, before driving a U-Haul truck about a mile to the Jersey City Kosher Supermarket, where they parked across the street from the store and began shooting before even entering the building.One of the assailants has been linked to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The movement has published anti-Semitic posts online.
Hundreds of women, separated from the men as per Orthodox Jewish tradition, were standing in the bitter cold sobbing.Ferencz owned the store with her husband, who was next door at the small synagogue at the time of the attack, according to Yossi Steinmetz who was there as well.When shots broke out, her husband desperately tried to call her and tell her to lock the doors to take cover, Steinmetz said. She didn't answer.
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