{"id":654,"date":"2017-03-14T19:05:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=654"},"modified":"2017-03-14T19:14:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T23:14:13","slug":"man-shot-killed-by-toms-river-police-after-physical-altercation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/03\/man-shot-killed-by-toms-river-police-after-physical-altercation\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Shot, Killed by Toms River Police After &#8216;Physical Altercation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_171\" style=\"width: 766px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"size-full wp-image-171\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png\" alt=\"Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)\" width=\"756\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png 756w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-599x420.png 599w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-640x449.png 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM-681x477.png 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Authorities say a man was shot and killed by police in a Toms River apartment Tuesday after a physical altercation took place when officers went to check on him.<\/p>\n<p>Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, said\u00a0at approximately 12:30 p.m., two members of the Toms River Police Department were following up on a prior report of a\u00a0person believed to be in need of professional mental health intervention services at the\u00a0Silver Ridge Apartments, 109 Edgewood Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the course of their investigation a physical altercation took place after making contact with the 56-year-old white male subject,\u201d said Della Fave. \u201cThat altercation lead to the discharge of a service weapon(s).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The name of the deceased man was not released.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy by the Ocean County Medical Examiners Office will be conducted and a full report regarding the cause and manner of death will be included in future investigative findings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time the investigation and scene processing are the priority,\u201d said Della Fave.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen all the facts and circumstances surrounding the event are definitively confirmed,\u201d he said, a more complete account of what occurred will be released public.<\/p>\n<p>Police and detectives from the county prosecutor\u2019s and sheriff\u2019s offices were on scene collecting evidence for the upcoming investigation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2017\/03\/man-shot-killed-by-toms-river-police-after-physical-altercation\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say a man was shot and killed by police in a Toms River apartment Tuesday after a physical altercation took place when officers went to check on him. Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, said\u00a0at approximately 12:30 p.m., two members of the Toms River Police Department were following up on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[249,11],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","tag-police-involved-shooting","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-26-at-3.09.49-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}