Jersey City Bloodbath: NYPD Provides High-Tech Vehicle to Battle Anti-Semitic Killers
Francine Graham and David Anderson opened fire on Detective Joseph Seals on Tuesday at 12.30pm in a cemetery in Jersey City, New Jersey. Seals did not survive the attack.
- Jersey City police detectives during their investigation said that one of the shooters had posted anti-Semitic and anti-police posts on social media websites.
- At the time of his demise, Det. Seals was investigating the homicide of a taxi cab driver whose lifeless body was found on Saturday.
- Following the ambush and killing of Det. Seal, the shooters drove a stolen U-Haul to Jersey City Kosher Supermarket located close to the Seals murder site.
- The two suspects barricaded themselves inside of the Jewish-owned retail store and they engaged in a two-hour shootout with police officers and SWAT teams
- The gunfight ended with SWAT teams smashing through the storefront.
- Once inside, they discovered the dead bodies of the two suspects and three innocent victims of the anti-Semitic shooters.
- One of victims was the store owners’ wife, Leah Mindel Ferencz, 33, and another was Moshe Hirsch Deutsch, 24.
- The police officials also said there appeared to be explosives inside of U-Haul truck.
Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop announced during a press briefing that the attack was a hate crime and the Jewish store was the target.
During what can only be called a bloodbath in a part of Jersey City that boasts three universities (New Jersey City State University, Saint Peter’s University and Hudson County Community College). Besides the Jersey City police officers, federal and state cops — Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
From across the Hudson River, the New York Police Department (NYPD) dispatched a number of resources including bomb technicians.But what was discovered to be the most fascinating police resource to make its debut appearance was the high-tech vehicle known as “The Rook.”
The Rook, designed by Ring Power Corporation, a heavy equipment company that modifies vehicles, is essentially an armored Caterpillar vehicle that has been modified for SWAT and other police units.
