Police-involved shooting in Moonachie, NJ | What we know

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Oct 29, 2026
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We're following breaking news in New Jersey where there's
been a police-involved shooting
in Moonachie. Fox 5's Teresa Brielle live at the scene.
Teresa, now that you're there,
what can we see?
We're seeing quite a large police presence, Natasha, from a number of
different surrounding agencies, Carlstadt Police,
Rutherford, Secaucus, Munaki, Woodbridge,
and New Jersey State Police. I'm going to draw your attention.
I know it's very tough to see
because of the dark and the flashing lights.
I'm going to draw your attention to a black,
what appears to be SUV that has crashed into the side
of that building with the awning on the
corner there. We don't know exactly how that car
is involved in all of this, but we can tell you
that the police officers
and troopers that are here on scene have been circling that car,
looking inside of it, checking around it.
As we understand, I was just told by a trooper that was
passing by. He said, quote,
all I can say is that it's a police-involved shooting and we'll be in
touch for more information.
We believe it to be a trooper-involved shooting. We know one person,
at least one person, injured,
taken away to Hackensack University Medical Center, we believe,
which is only about four miles away.
That's a level one trauma center. And as best we could
see from the video that we were able to see,
the person appears to be shot in the upper part of the
body. Again, very few details at this point.
This is all happening in the last hour. They are keeping
us quite a ways from where this all happened.
Again, that is all the way back there where all
those flashing lights and vehicles are situated.
Just to kind of give you an idea if you're not
familiar with Munaki or you're not familiar
with this area of the Meadowlands, we are basically in
an industrial park. There is only industrial buildings around here.
So you wouldn't be here
unless you needed to be here or you knew these roads.
We're gonna see how that fits in to this situation.
Again, we have no idea why this officer was following
or pursuing or after that car,
if they are involved in any way.
We're hoping to get those information
as the night unfolds.
That's the latest from Moonachie right now.
