Jersey City deli worker shot; cops catch suspect

Published: Monday, March 26, 2012, 3:03 AM
By Charles Hack/The Jersey Journal

A Jersey City police officer wrestled a robbery suspect to the ground Friday after the man allegedly shot a 48-year-old deli worker in the left shoulder, according to police reports.

Responding to the C&H Mini Market at Bergen Avenue and Union Street at 9:21 p.m., cops found the wounded store employee who told them that a tall man with a silver revolver chased him down a store aisle before opening fire, reports said.

The cash register was open and cash was strewn across the counter and the floor, reports said, adding the victim was treated at the scene and then at the Jersey City Medical Center for a non-life threatening injury.

Based on the description given by the store employee, officers spotted Sean White, 26, of Union Street, walking along Union Street toward Martin Luther King Drive, police said.

The officers saw White had a gun and ordered him to drop the weapon, but White fled and the officers chased him, reports said.

At one point during the chase, White turned and pointed the gun at Police Officer Collin Congleton, a plainclothes officer with the Violent Crimes Unit who also served two tours in Iraq as a Marine, police officials said.

Congleton tackled the suspect and with the help of fellow officers made the arrest, officials said.

Police recovered a silver .38 special Ruger revolver loaded with three hollow point and two ballpoint bullets and one spent shell in the chamber, police said.

White was charged with robbery, possession of a weapon for unlawful purposes, unlawful possession of weapons, shots fired, aggravated assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, prohibited weapons and devices, and certain person not to have a weapon, officials said.