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| Kosher Market Attack Unnerves Jersey City: ‘I Just Hope They’re Safe’ | |
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| [Read more about the shooting in Jersey City that left people six people dead.] | [Read more about the shooting in Jersey City that left people six people dead.] |
| Naomi Perez was anxious. She had gotten a call from her son’s high school saying that students were going to be released later than usual. | Naomi Perez was anxious. She had gotten a call from her son’s high school saying that students were going to be released later than usual. |
| She went to the school, in Jersey City, N.J., where she was among a group of nervous local residents blocked by police tape from one of the most violent scenes in the city’s recent history. | She went to the school, in Jersey City, N.J., where she was among a group of nervous local residents blocked by police tape from one of the most violent scenes in the city’s recent history. |
| “I just hope they’re safe,” she said as she waited for her son and two friend to emerge from the school, Henry Snyder High School. “We don’t really know the extent of how crazy it is.” | “I just hope they’re safe,” she said as she waited for her son and two friend to emerge from the school, Henry Snyder High School. “We don’t really know the extent of how crazy it is.” |
| Schools on lockdown. Police helicopters circling in the gray sky above. Jersey City officers backed against a storefront, their guns aimed at a market across the street. New York City Police Department officers in riot gear descending on a rental truck. | Schools on lockdown. Police helicopters circling in the gray sky above. Jersey City officers backed against a storefront, their guns aimed at a market across the street. New York City Police Department officers in riot gear descending on a rental truck. |
| For several hours on Tuesday, the Greenville neighborhood of Jersey City was on edge as law enforcement officers from local, state and federal agencies engaged in a standoff with at least two armed people in a grocery store. | For several hours on Tuesday, the Greenville neighborhood of Jersey City was on edge as law enforcement officers from local, state and federal agencies engaged in a standoff with at least two armed people in a grocery store. |
| In all, six people were killed, including a Jersey City police officer, the shooters who had holed up in the market and three people who were in the store when the firefight unfolded, officials said. | In all, six people were killed, including a Jersey City police officer, the shooters who had holed up in the market and three people who were in the store when the firefight unfolded, officials said. |
| The center of the chaotic scene, the JC Kosher Supermarket on Martin Luther King Drive near Bayview Avenue, caters to a small, but growing, number of about 100 Hasidic families who arrived in recent years after being priced out of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. | The center of the chaotic scene, the JC Kosher Supermarket on Martin Luther King Drive near Bayview Avenue, caters to a small, but growing, number of about 100 Hasidic families who arrived in recent years after being priced out of the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. |
| There was “no indication of terrorism,” an official said at an afternoon news conference. | There was “no indication of terrorism,” an official said at an afternoon news conference. |
| The Jewish families, many of whom belong to the ultra-Orthodox Satmar sect, have settled into houses on dense blocks with neighbors that include a Catholic School, a Pentecostal church and a Dominican restaurant. | The Jewish families, many of whom belong to the ultra-Orthodox Satmar sect, have settled into houses on dense blocks with neighbors that include a Catholic School, a Pentecostal church and a Dominican restaurant. |
| The kosher market’s opening three years ago signaled that they were putting down roots in what remains a largely African-American part of Jersey City. | The kosher market’s opening three years ago signaled that they were putting down roots in what remains a largely African-American part of Jersey City. |
| Kwame Opam, Sharon Otterman and Edgar Sandoval contributed reporting. | Kwame Opam, Sharon Otterman and Edgar Sandoval contributed reporting. |