Crime & Safety

New Video Shows Shootout After Anti-Semitic Jersey City Attack

Newly released video shows the shootout between police and anti-Semitic attackers in a Jersey City kosher store.

In this Dec. 10, 2019 photo, emergency responders move heavy equipment near the scene of a shooting in Jersey City, N.J.
In this Dec. 10, 2019 photo, emergency responders move heavy equipment near the scene of a shooting in Jersey City, N.J. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

NEW YORK CITY — Police body camera video shows the shootout between cops and two attackers who killed three people in a Jersey City kosher grocery store as part of an anti-Semitic attack.

"I think he's down," an officer says in video of the Dec. 10 shootout, published by the Associated Press Thursday. "No, he's still moving."

Cops surrounded the JC Kosher Supermarket after David Anderson and Francine Graham stormed the store and killed co-owner Mindel Ferencz, 31, customer Moshe Deutsch, 24, and worker Douglas Miguel Rodriguez, authorities said.

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Before arriving at the store, Anderson, 47, and Graham, 50, shot dead Jersey City Detective Joseph Seals in a chance meeting in a nearby cemetery.

Bullets flew across the street during the hours long shootout that followed and ended with police shooting Anderson and Graham dead.

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Investigators later found a reference to Jews as “imposters who inhabited synagogues of Satan” in his social media posts.

View the video here.


The Associated Press contributed to this report

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