A domestic violence suspect armed with a baseball bat was fatally shot by police officers outside a convenience store in New Jersey, the state Attorney General’s Office announced.
The chaos kicked off on Thursday around 1 a.m., when authorities were called to a home on East Tappen Street in the Port Reading section of Woodbridge Township, just west of southern Staten Island.
By the time officers arrived, however, a man identified as 35-year-old Aamir Allen, of Carteret, had fled from the scene on foot, eventually stopping at a nearby store on Port Reading Avenue, according to New Jersey A.G. Matthew J. Platkin.
Allen was confronted a short time later in the parking lot by Woodbridge Police Sgt. Marco Bruno. The attorney general said Allen appeared to be holding a baseball bat at the time, prompting Bruno to discharge his service weapon.
Police told ABC 7 that Bruno previously used the bat to bust the windows of an SUV parked outside the residence mentioned in the original 911 call. The SUV allegedly belonged to a woman who had taken out a restraining order against Allen, the news station reported, citing a friend of the woman.
Allen was rushed to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick at approximately 1:40 a.m., the attorney general said. He was pronounced dead at 9:21 a.m.
The attorney general’s office provided few other details, but noted that it has launched an investigation into the officer-involved shooting, which is ongoing.
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