Man fatally shot by Deptford Township police identified
New Jersey’s Attorney General’s Office has identified Mitchell Negron Jr. as the man who was shot and killed during an encounter with the Deptford Township police on Friday afternoon.
Negron, 24, was stopped by Officer Robert Shisler on Delsea Drive in Gloucester County shortly before 12:40 pm What followed, according to the AG’s Office, was a foot chase that turned into a struggle, and ended in a residential neighborhood on Doman Avenue , where both Negron and Shisler were shot.
Emergency responders pronounced Negron dead at the scene, where parents and school children later in the day squeezed past ribbons