New Jersey police officer dies from gunshot wound sustained in line of duty

DEPTFORD TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (WPVI) — A Deptford Township police officer has died after being shot within the line of obligation again in March.

Motion Information has realized that 27-year-old Officer Robert “Bobby” Shisler handed away on the hospital on Might 7.

The Deptford Township Police Division launched a message on Fb confirming the officer’s passing and expressing their condolences.

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Authorities say the capturing initially occurred round 12:38 p.m. on March 10, whereas Officer Shisler performed a pedestrian cease on Delsea Drive in Deptford Township.

Sooner or later, authorities say Officer Shisler chased the pedestrian on foot and a wrestle ensued.

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Gunfire then erupted within the space of Doman Avenue. Authorities say Officer Shisler and the pedestrian, 24-year-old Mitchell Negron Jr., had been each injured by gunfire.

Negron was pronounced lifeless on the scene.

Sources say a fellow officer utilized a tourniquet earlier than Officer Shisler was taken to Cooper Medical Heart in a patrol automobile.

Officers say {that a} Taurus .38 particular revolver, which was not the officer’s service weapon, was recovered on the scene.

Shisler was a four-year veteran assigned to Platoon B of the Patrol Division.