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🚨 Bodycam from Deadly Jersey City Shooting Released
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🚨 Bodycam from Deadly Jersey City Shooting Released

NEW FOOTAGE FROM A SEPT. 5, 2025 SHOOTING JUST DROPPED. 26 YEAR OLD STEVEN B. SANCHEZ WAS KILLED. POLICE SAY IT STARTED AROUND 1:22 PM ON JFK BLVD AFTER AN OFFICER BELIEVED HIS VEHICLE WAS SHOT AT. A CIVILIAN POINTED OUT SANCHEZ AS THE SUSPECT. BY 1:23 PM, OFFICERS CONFRONTED HIM NEAR JFK AND CLINTON. THEY SAY HE HAD WHAT LOOKED LIKE A GUN, REFUSED COMMANDS, AND POINTED IT AT OFFICERS. SHOTS FIRED. INVESTIGATORS SAY SANCHEZ WAS HIT, KEPT FIRING, AND RAN TOWARD OFFICERS BEFORE BEING TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. HE LATER DIED AT 8:45 PM. ONE OFFICER INJURED. NO OTHER INJURIES. WEAPON RECOVERED WAS A COMPRESSED AIR PISTOL. CASE NOW HEADED TO A GRAND JURY.