jerseymom wrote:
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user1111 wrote:
The incident started with the fatal shooting of a police officer at a cemetery before the two assailants, a man and a woman who were suspects in a homicide, holed up in the market, engaging police in a lengthy gun battle.

The shooters also killed Moshe Deutsch, 24; Miguel Douglas, 49; and Joe Seals, a Jersey City police detective. The shooters, identified as David Anderson and Francine Graham, were found dead in the store.

Now the Jewish community of Jersey City, and their friends and family in New York, are reeling and wondering what comes next.

Many had moved from Brooklyn to escape the borough?s high prices and had found a welcoming new home. It wasn?t a danger zone, they said. They got along with their neighbors and did not experience the anti-Semitic vandalism, harassment and assaults that have taken place recently in Brooklyn?s Hasidic neighborhoods.

?There have never been any attacks or incidents with the Jews who lived there,? said Rabbi Avi Schnall, the New Jersey director for Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox organization. Schnall has worked with Jews and other local leaders in Greenville on building bridges with the neighborhood?s communities.

Schnall drew a link between Tuesday?s shooting and the killings at synagogues in Poway, California, in April, and in Pittsburgh a little more than a year ago.

?It?s beyond tragic,? Schnall said. ?It?s frightening. What?s more frightening is this is not a local issue. This is taking place in three places throughout the country in the past year, that people are being gunned down.?

Officials say it remains unclear whether the attack was motivated by anti-Semitism. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop tweeted Wednesday morning that ?it has now become clear from the cameras that these two individuals targeted the Kosher grocery location.? But officials at a news conference later in the day repeatedly stressed that they could not definitively say what motivated the shooters.

?We know there is significant speculation about the shooters? motive,? said New Jersey Attorney General Gubrir Grewal. ?We are not in the position at this time to say definitively why the suspect decided to stop in front of the supermarket and begin firing immediately.?

Less than a day after the shooting, JC Kosher is already rebuilding.

On Wednesday, a plywood frame stood in front of the store entrance near a truck carrying what looked like drywall. Men from a company called Gold Star Restoration were hammering away. Inside, boxes of children?s candy, cereal and croutons lined the shelves. A group of Orthodox men were carrying a shiny new door to the building. Construction paused only for a prayer service at the adjacent synagogue, K?hal Adas Greenville, with New Jersey Gov. Chris Murphy in attendance.

The grocery store is on Martin Luther King Drive, one of the neighborhood?s central thoroughfares. Down the street is a Pentecostal church, a mosque and a string of businesses. The surrounding blocks are full of row houses in a rainbow of colors along with some empty lots. Broken bottles and litter line the streets.
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Jersey City residents say the area has been gentrifying, with a boom in new construction in the past few years. Douglas Harmon, 43, a lifetime Greenville resident and local building contractor, said most of the new arrivals are Jewish families.

meltedopsicle wrote:
I watched a CBS news video of a press conference. The explanation given was (paraphrase) the perpetrators stopped the vehicle in front of the kosher market, got out with weapons in hand, and started shooting at/into the target, "bypassing other targets" such as people on the street and neighboring buildings. Did they look up the market ahead of time and it was the specific destination, or did they cruise the street looking at target options and decided on that one? It's a tragedy regardless, but these are different definitions of "they targeted the location".

jerseymom wrote:
Why so vague? Where do they live? Work?

jerseymom wrote:
Steven Fulop
@StevenFulop

Based on our initial investigation (which is ongoing) we now believe the active shooters targeted the location they attacked. Due to an excess of caution the community may see additional police resources in the days/weeks ahead. We have no indication there are any further threats

9:21 PM ? Dec 10, 2019?Twitter for iPhone

135jc wrote:
Sources said David Anderson, who committed the deadly Tuesday attack with a woman identified as Francine Graham, was a one-time follower of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement and made the hateful postings on his social media page.

135jc wrote:
Does Fulop have any direct knowledge that the store was targeted? If he does he has not revealed what he knows.