Video shows struggle before N.J. trooper fatally shot college student after traffic stop
06/09/2020 7:09 am PDT
via WPIX:
BASS RIVER, N.J. (WPIX/AP) -- A New Jersey state trooper fired his handgun six times, killing a New York state man after a struggle erupted during a traffic stop on the Garden State Parkway last month, video released Monday showed.
About a dozen audio and video recordings from the May 23 traffic stop in Bass River, New Jersey, shed more light on the death of 28-year-old Maurice Gordon, a black man from Poughkeepsie, whose death has sparked an investigation by the state attorney general and will lead the case to be presented to a grand jury under a 2019 law aimed at holding law enforcement accountable.
The trooper was identified for the first time Monday as Sgt. Randall Wetzel, according to New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal.
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