Police say officers responded to a call of an emotionally disturbed person at an apartment on Randolph Avenue.
"Why the SWAT was called, why they needed to enter when they did, why they needed to go when the family was pleading with them not to use guns," questioned Marcello Pacheco, a neighbor to 52-year-old Jerome Washington, who was shot and killed by Jersey City police Sunday.
The neighbor says Washington was no stranger to police presence at his home due to similar instances before that were resolved but this time, a different outcome. 8 minutes later, Jersey police arrived and engaged with Washington for nearly an hour and around 3:30 p.m. "Of course I do, of course I do. No one who has mental illness deserves that. They just needed to find somebody, find an outlet to calm him down," one explained.
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