Daily News | A.G.’s Office identifies man fatally shot by Deptford Township police
A Deptford Township, N.J., police officer fatally shot a 24-year-old man during a struggle on March 10.New Jersey’s Attorney General’s Office has identified Mitchell Negron Jr. as the man who was shot and killed during an encounter with Deptford Township police on Friday afternoon.
Negron, 24, was stopped by Officer Robert Shisler on Delsea Drive in Gloucester County shortly before 12:40 p.m. What followed, according to the A.G.’s Office, was a foot chase that turned into a struggle, and ended in a residential neighborhood on Doman Avenue, where both Negron and Shisler were shot.
Emergency responders pronounced Negron dead at the scene, where parents and school children later in the dayShisler, who joined Deptford Township’s police force in 2019, is listed in stable condition at Cooper Medical Center.The Inquirer on Sunday asked the Attorney General’s Office, which investigates fatal police shootings, if Mitchell had been armed, or whether investigators could clarify the sequence of events that led up to Mitchell and Shisler being shot.
A spokesperson for the office,citing the ongoing investigation, declined to provide additional information.One resident, Emily Secord, 26, who lives on a street adjacent to Doman Avenue, said Friday that she’d heard several gunshots. She looked out her window, and watched the dozens of police cars zip past.
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