Madison Cops Pay Respects To Fallen Jersey City Officer

MADISON, NJ - Officers from the Madison Police Department were among the processional of people to pay respects to fallen Jersey City Police Detective Joseph Seals Tuesday.

Seals, 39, was killed in the events leading up to last week's shooting standoff in the Greenville section of Jersey City last Tuesday, Dec. 10.

Shortly after noon that day, Seals, working a plainclothes detail at the time, saw a U-Haul truck near the area of Bayview Cemetery in Jersey City. That U-Haul was possibly linked to this murder from over the weekend in Bayonne, Jersey City Police Chief Mike Kelly said, in which a Bayonne man was found beaten to death in the trunk of a car.

However, Det. Seals never got to question the suspects: As he approached the truck, one of the suspects got out of the car and shot him once in the head, killing him. He was shot once in the back of the head, behind the ear, and died at the Jersey City Medical Center.

Officers from Madison, Chatham Borough and Chatham Township Police Departments travelled to St. Aedan's in Jersey City to pay respects. Madison also sent two motors for the processional.

St. Aedan's is the Roman Catholic church that serves St. Peter's University, a Jesuit university in Jersey City.

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