LIVE: Fallen Deptford police officer’s body escorted back to New Jersey

DEPTFORD TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (WPVI) — Tributes proceed to pour in for fallen Deptford Township Police Division Officer Robert “Bobby” Shisler.

It is the primary line of obligation loss of life for the division.

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Officer Shisler was shot within the line of obligation on March 10.

In line with the state lawyer normal, Shisler made a pedestrian cease on Delsea Drive.

Whereas particulars of the cease itself haven’t been launched, authorities say it changed into a chase and a battle, and photographs had been fired.

The pedestrian, Mitchell Negron Jr., was killed.

Shisler was shot within the leg and critically wounded. He spent weeks at Cooper’s ICU.

He was then moved to the College of Pennsylvania Hospital, the place he handed away on Sunday.

On Tuesday, Shisler’s physique will likely be escorted again to Deptford from the medical expert’s workplace in Philadelphia.

The 27-year-old officer is survived by his mother and father, brother, and sister.

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Funeral preparations are nonetheless being finalized.

Shisler’s patrol automotive and the memorial will stay on the township constructing till his funeral.