Gloucester County Times
HAMMONTON
TWP., N.J. — A police chase that started in Deptford Township when a
man pulled a weapon on a local EMS worker late Sunday afternoon ended in
gunfire early Monday morning.
The New Jersey State Attorney
General's Shooting Response Team is handling the investigation of the
death of 27-year-old Donald Hoffman of Hammonton. He was fatally shot by
a member of the Atlantic County Emergency Response Team just after 4
a.m. on the first floor of the home his mother was renting.
Late
Sunday, a police official told the Times that a man had pulled a gun on
the EMS worker at 4:30 p.m. at the outbuilding which houses Deptford
Police's Emergency Services Unit on Cooper Street at Delsea Drive.
At that time a second EMS worker saw what was happening, radioed county fire dispatch who in turn notified police.
Officers
arrived on the scene as Hoffman fled in a white Honda Civic. Two units
gave chase through Camden and Atlantic counties to the 200 block of 13th
Street in Hammonton where he exited the car armed with the handgun and
ran inside the home around 5 p.m.
Police then surrounded the
perimeter of the property while Hammonton and Atlantic County SWAT teams
responded. Hoffman's mother and others who were inside left the home as
did another resident who lives on the second floor.
A police
negotiator was called in and communicated sporadically with Hoffman
throughout the night in an attempt to get him to surrender. After failed
attempts at talking Hoffman out, authorities elected to fire canisters
of pepper spray.
Still Hoffman disregarded commands to give
himself up. Members of the Atlantic County Emergency Response Team
entered the home and fatally shot Hoffman.
Information as to what went on inside is not being released by the Attorney General's Office. The investigation is ongoing.
The
Shooting Response Team is comprised of deputy attorneys general,
detectives of the Division of Criminal Justice and detectives with the
New Jersey State Police Major Crimes Unit.
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