Four men were at the wrong New Jersey address last month when they fired bullets into a house occupied by two New Jersey officers and their newborn baby, authorities said.
The four were arrested over the weekend, Camden County police said Monday. No one in the house was injured. A reward for information leading to arrests in the case reached $100,000.
The officers whose home was shot up on September 15 are members of the Camden department. Detectives feared they had been targeted because of their law enforcement work, according to reports. The six shots that struck the house were fired from a vehicle that sped away.
“Everybody that we spoke to in the neighborhood, they knew that they were police officers,” Police Chief Joseph Wysocki told a news conference Monday, according to CBS 3 Philadelphia. “They knew that the police officers lived there, it was common knowledge.”
But in announcing the arrests, Wysocki said, “I do not believe that the suspects knew that the police officers lived in that residence.” He said they intended to shoot up another house, the station reported.
The suspects were identified as Obbie Johnson, 30; Jeremiah McDonald, 18; Jaqwa Styles, 19; and Julio Nieves, 19, Fox 29 Philadelphia reported.
They were charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
Wyscoki said of his two officers, who attended the news conference, “I think they’re still not sleeping at night. But I think that’s because their baby’s keeping them awake if I can characterize that correctly.”
It’s a sad commentary on the mentality of those who claim to be oppressed & seeking “justice”. They are useless, ignorant beings. They are only proving that they are dangerous thugs & therefore pose a threat to anyone & everyone any time they are in public. I think BLB should publicly condemn this insanity because it only diminishes the public sympathy & support. This insanity simply must not b allowed to continue.
You’re right, they need to start putting a bullet in these lazy freeloaders thugs head and call it a good job, and this is bull crap, and what is so bad these sorry want to be governors and idiot Mayors want let the cops do their job, and letting these BLM brds burn and steal and get away with with it, they’re going to have to start putting a bullet to their head.