Overview
- Police say the shooting occurred while officers were executing a search warrant on the 100 block of North Florida Avenue and the resident, later identified as Donald Gardner, was pronounced dead.
- The New Jersey Attorney General identified Officer Robert Reynolds as the officer who fired the fatal shots and said two other officers were struck and taken to AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center.
- One wounded officer, Sgt. Christian Ivanov, remains in intensive care in serious but stable condition while the other injured officer has been released from the hospital.
- Gardner’s family disputes that he was armed and his mother says she was not allowed to see him after the shooting, while court records show Gardner had a long criminal history including a 1994 homicide conviction and a 2013 police shooting that left him paralyzed.
- The Attorney General’s Office is conducting its statutorily required probe into the June 2 shooting and will determine whether evidence supports any charges as public calls for transparency continue and the case draws scrutiny of police use of force.