{"id":9508,"date":"2016-10-18T00:06:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T04:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=9508"},"modified":"2016-10-18T03:16:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T07:16:56","slug":"prosecutor-toms-river-police-shot-man-pretending-tv-remote-was-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/10\/prosecutor-toms-river-police-shot-man-pretending-tv-remote-was-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor: Toms River Police Shot Man Pretending TV Remote Was Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In what has been described as an apparent attempt of \u201csuicide by cop,\u201d Toms River officers shot and critically wounded a man who pointed a television remote at them, mimicking a firearm.<\/p>\n

The man,\u00a0whose name has not been publicly released, called 911 on himself at about 6:44 p.m. Sunday, a statement from the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n

The caller reported\u00a0that there were three suspicious males, one armed with a gun, in the area of Sand Creek Lane in the Silverton section of Toms River. Members of the Toms River Police Department responded to the area of Sand Creek Lane and Christian Court, and upon their arrival, encountered a white male walking in the area, the statement said. A preliminary investigation has revealed\u00a0that upon encountering the officers, the man\u00a0had his right hand hidden behind his back and began walking towards the officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe officers gave repeated loud commands to the subject, ordering him to show them his hands and to put his hands in the air,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

The man\u00a0ignored the officers\u2019 repeated commands, then \u201cquickly removed his right hand from behind his back and pointed a black object at the officers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two initial responding officers, whose names were not divulged, fired a total of nine rounds, striking the man\u00a0twice. The officers immediately rendered first aid to the man,\u00a0who was subsequently transported to an area hospital where he was\u00a0listed in critical but stable condition Monday. He was\u00a0expected to survive.<\/p>\n

An\u00a0investigation into the incident has uncovered the revelation\u00a0that the man\u00a0made a 911 call to Toms River police so they would respond. The black object that he was hiding behind his back and pointed at the officers was found to be a black television remote control that he took from a motel where he had been staying.<\/p>\n

\u201cPreliminary investigation revealed that the subject removed the black television remote from his room at the area motel and ultimately utilized the remote control to feign\u00a0the presence of a deadly weapon, during his confrontation with the officers,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

The investigation into the incident is being led by the\u00a0Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, with assistance from the Ocean County Sheriff\u2019s Department CSI Unit, with the \u201cfull cooperation\u201d of the Toms River Police Department. The names of the officers and the man who was shot may be released at a later time, officials said.<\/p>\n

Anyone who has any information is being asked to contact Detective Raymond Gardner or Detective Lindsay Woodfield of the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office at \u00a0732-929-2027.<\/p>\n

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In what has been described as an apparent attempt of \u201csuicide by cop,\u201d Toms River officers shot and critically wounded a man who pointed a television remote at them, mimicking a firearm. The man,\u00a0whose name has not been publicly released, called 911 on himself at about 6:44 p.m. Sunday, a statement from the Ocean County […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,1600,2374,2509,100],"class_list":["post-9508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-police-shooting","tag-silverton","tag-suicide-by-cop","tag-toms-river"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2tm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}