Overview
- Officers responded around 5:30 p.m. Monday to a River Road home after a 911 call reported a person with a knife, which local officials said was placed by a relative believed to be the suspect's father.
- Police say the man charged at them with a knife or machete and Tasers failed to stop him before officers opened fire, killing him outside the residence.
- After the shooting, authorities discovered three deceased individuals in the home who were identified by local officials as the suspect's mother and grandparents.
- The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office are investigating the police-involved fatality under state protocol.
- Authorities have not released any names or causes of death and say the episode appears isolated with no ongoing threat to the public.