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New Jersey attorney general releases body cam video from deadly police shooting in Elizabeth
ELIZABETH, N.J. — The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has released police body camera footage of officers shooting a man wielding a knife.
The footage shows an Elizabeth police officer shoot the 42-year-old man one time in his chest. The man was transported to the hospital, where he died.
State law requires the attorney general’s office to investigate every death that occurs at the hands of police officers.
Minutes after a 911 call came in on July 29, Elizabeth police officers went to a multi-family home on Amity Street.
The video, which was released and edited by the attorney general’s office, shows the officers knock and then walk in to screaming down the hall.
One cop draws his gun as a man wearing red comes into the hall. In one hand, he has what appears to be a kitchen knife. In the other, it looks like he’s holding on to a woman- though that was blurred by the attorney general.
The officer then fires. The man in red, 42-year-old Estiben Alegria-Hurtado, later died.
“Shoot first and ask questions later. That’s what this video shows,” attorney Sanford Rubenstein said.
After the shooting, police say they recovered the knife.
“Where’s the knife?” an officer asks.
“He tried to kill me,” a woman says.
Activists and attorneys stood with Alegria-Hurtado’s family Monday and said they were traumatized by the video.
“The video shows the officers are walking inside. They did not identify themselves. They did not say who they were. They did not tell him to drop the knife. They did not tell him to drop the weapon. All they did was shoot to kill,” said the Rev. Kevin McCall, a community activist.
The Elizabeth Police Department has not responded to CBS New York’s request for comment.
When the attorney general’s investigation is complete, the case will be presented to a grand jury to decide whether criminal charges should be filed.
This story originally appeared on 6abc.
Crews are working to contain a 40-acre wildfire in Hainesport, Burlington County.
The blaze broke out Monday night in the area of Bancroft Lane and Cove Court.
Chopper 6 was overhead as New Jersey Forest Fire crews worked to establish a containment line directly behind several homes in the area.
In a 9 p.m. update, officials said no structures were threatened, which was down from 20 earlier in the evening.
Bancroft Lane, Cove Court, and Wharton Place all remain closed.
The fire was about 20% contained Monday night.
No injuries have been reported.
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U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill, fresh off winning a re-election campaign, has announced she is running to be the next governor of the Garden State.
Sherrill, who represents a North Jersey district that covers Essex, Morris and Passaic counties, announced her candidacy Monday morning on YouTube. She is the second congressperson to join an already crowded field on the Democratic side. Her colleague in the House, Josh Gottheimer, announced his campaign for governor on Friday.
The former federal prosecutor has served in Congress since 2019. She graduated from the Naval Academy in 1994 and spent almost a decade on active duty as a Navy helicopter pilot. Sherrill would go to Georgetown University law school and work in private practice before working for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey.
Other Democratic candidates include Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, New Jersey Education Association president and former Montclair Mayor Sean Spiller, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and former Senate President Steve Sweeney.
There is also a sizable field on the GOP side. Former Assemblyman Jack Ciattarelli, who was the 2021 Republican nominee for governor, announced his candidacy as he was conceding the last gubernatorial race. He formally launched his third campaign for governor last April.
Other Republican candidates include radio talk show host Bill Spadea, former state Sen. Ed Durr and state Sen. Jon Bramnick.
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