{"id":39431,"date":"2025-03-08T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T07:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39431"},"modified":"2025-03-08T03:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T09:14:47","slug":"new-jersey-police-officer-killed-2nd-officer-wounded-in-shooting-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=39431","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey police officer killed, 2nd officer wounded in shooting, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">NEWARK, N.J. &#8212;&nbsp;One Newark, New Jersey, police officer was killed and another was wounded in a shooting Friday evening, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Essex County Prosecutor\u2019s Office confirmed in an email to The Associated Press that two Newark police officers were shot around 6:37 p.m. in the area of Broadway and Carteret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The officers were taken to University Hospital in Newark and one was critically injured, the office said, noting the shooting remains under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">They officers were shot in the line of duty, Robert W. Fox, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police-New Jersey State Lodge, said in a statement posted on Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;One Officer has made the ultimate sacrifice, and the other is receiving treatment for their wounds at the time of this release,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/new-jersey-police-officer-killed-officer-wounded-shooting-119580658\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWARK, N.J. &#8212;&nbsp;One Newark, New Jersey, police officer was killed and another was wounded in a shooting Friday evening, authorities said. The Essex County Prosecutor\u2019s Office confirmed in an email to The Associated Press that two Newark police officers were shot around 6:37 p.m. in the area of Broadway and Carteret. The officers were taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":39432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[4137,1170,1997],"class_list":["post-39431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-jersey","tag-new","tag-officer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39433,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39431\/revisions\/39433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}