It was a tense scene outside a Dollar General store near the Jersey Shore Tuesday morning as police officers were involved in a shooting.
Officers could be seen with their guns drawn in the parking lot of the store on New Road in Absecon, New Jersey, according to video shot by a passerby. A law enforcement source told NBC10 police were called to the store for a report of a man armed with a gun inside the Dollar General. A short time later, gunfire erupted at the location.
What exactly happened remained unclear Tuesday afternoon, as investigators had released few details, other than to say no officers were injured. The video from the passerby doesn't capture what happens after the gunfire.
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"I felt like I was almost in a movie," Marialyn Cappuccio, a witness who recorded part of the incident, told NBC10. "I couldn't see any suspect. I could just see kind of the front of the store. They were pointing in that direction."
In a brief news release, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said it responded to "the report of a Police Officer Involved shooting."
The prosecutor's office said it had no further information about the person involved or if that person was injured. The office did, however, say that no police officers were hurt.
Several dozen evidence markers could be seen on the ground as SkyForce10 hovered over the Dollar General parking lot midday.
Nearby Holy Spirit High School was briefly placed on lockdown.
