The grief is still unbearable for Martha Freire.
One year ago this week, she spoke to her husband, Douglas Miguel Rodriguez Barzola, for the last time. It was only a few hours later that he was killed at the kosher grocery store in Jersey City where he worked.
She expected family and friends to visit from her homeland of Ecuador in the past year and help distract her from the sorrow she seems to constantly feel. But COVID-19 struck, forcing flights to be canceled, and Freire to face the days mostly alone with her 12-year old daughter, Amy, in a country she still is getting to know.
Updated on December 11, 2020 at 2:33 am
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Exactly one year after four people were killed in a shootout at a kosher grocery in Jersey City, gunfire rang out less than two blocks from that tragic scene, leaving one man dead and another hurt.
The shots were fired on Martin Luther King Drive, just down from where a memorial service and a vigil remembering those victims, which included a police officer, were held. Coinciding with the first night of Hanukkah, a candle was lit in the memory of the four lives lost. It s been one year since four people were killed in a shooting in Jersey City. Pat Battle reports.
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New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal led a panel with other top state officials this morning reflecting on the Jersey City domestic terrorism incident that claimed four innocent lives 365 days ago.
Grewal led off the just over hour-long discussion by asking to remember Jersey City Police Det. Joseph Seals, Leah Minda Ferencz, Douglas Miguel Rodriguez, Moshe Deutsch, who were killed by the duo who began an hours-long shootout with law enforcement at a Kosher market one year ago.
He also recognized Michael Rumberger, an Uber driver who was killed by David and Anderson and Francine Graham in Bayonne days prior to their shootout in Greenville – where they also perished – before calling for a moment of silence.
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2019 Jersey City shooting victims (left to right): Moshe Deutsch, 24, ; Leah Minda Ferencz, 33; Detective Joseph Seals, 40, of North Arlington and Miguel Douglas, also known as Douglas Rodriguez. Michael Rumberger, a 34-year-old father of two, who drove a cab, is also suspected of being killed by the same gunmen.
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A year to the day of a deadly shooting in Jersey City, and on the first day of Hanukkah, Rabbi Bronwen Mullin told the few gathered inside Congregation B’nai Jacob, and all those watching online, about miracles.
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