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Jersey City shooting: Moment 'black supremacist' attackers opened fire on Jewish market
By Associated Press 8:57am Dec 12, 2019
Officials say a man and woman who stormed a Jewish market in a deadly shooting in the US state of New Jersey clearly targeted the store, amid growing fears the bloodshed was an anti-Semitic attack. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbil Grewal, though, cautioned that the motive for the attack that left six people dead yesterday was still under investigation. The two assailants were killed along with three people inside the Jersey City kosher market and a police officer in an hourslong gunbattle and standoff that began at a cemetery.
"As we speak, we are working to learn more about the shooters' motivations and whether others may be involved," Mr Grewal said. The killers were identified as David N. Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50 — both of them also suspects in the slaying of an Uber driver found dead in the trunk of a car in nearby Bayonne over the weekend, Mr Grewal said. Authorities are investigating potential connections between the attackers and the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, some of whose members are known to rail against whites and Jews, a law enforcement official familiar with the case said. Investigators also are scouring social media postings of at least one of the gunmen in search of a motive, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is still going on.
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