A 35-year-old New Jersey man was fatally shot by state police after he drove a stolen Jeep toward them.
NJ.com reports that state troopers were investigating a stolen car just before 6 p.m. Tuesday in Union. When police tried to stop the black Jeep, it backed into a parked car and then accelerated toward a trooper.
Peter Aseltine, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office, says police opened fire on the Parlin man who was pronounced dead at a Newark hospital.
Authorities are holding off on identifying the man pending notification of his family.
