Overview

• Officer Justin Rivera, 29, fell from a ninth-floor window of the Hudson County Administrative Building in Jersey City on May 30
• The building was closed to the public due to an unrelated power outage when Rivera’s fall occurred around 9:30 a.m.
• A witness reported hearing glass shatter immediately before Rivera plunged to the street
• Prosecutor Esther Suarez said the death appears accidental pending the medical examiner’s findings
• Colleagues, local officials and community members have paid tribute to Rivera’s service as a sheriff’s officer and boxing coach