Denville cop fatally shoots suspect

Really good to hear considering I just moved my family to Denville.

Oh please, give me a break. Wait until the details come out. Don't be so dramatic.

Move back out. No one will care.

He probably didn't want to stop because he had seven dogs in his car.

I say good for the prosecutor for coming out with an investigation right away. We need more of this
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The prosecutor always comes out right away to investigate when their is a fatality, police shooting involved or not.

And don't rush to judgment on the cops for shooting the guy until there is a story longer than 3 paragraphs, and actual details disclosed!

First of all - this all happened right up the street from me. The suspect was from Texas. He was doing 100 mph in a 25 mph zone. He grabbed a cop and dragged him. Cops shot! Good for them. For the person who just moved here, Denville's a great town. What happened is extremely unheard of in this town.

...And don't rush to judgment on the cops for shooting the guy until there is a story longer than 3 paragraphs, and actual details disclosed!...

Well put - especially when the source is this rag of a newspaper...

A few years back a prep tried to run a Denville cop down during a traffic stop on rt 80, and he met the same fate. I guess this texan didn't get the memo.

Actually this kid is from the area, he went to high school at Morris Knolls, he didn't just move here.

What is the age of the perp? I may know who it is.

A local kid made a poor decision and paid with his life. The cop should be fired because he can't be trusted with a gun. This is abuse of force. The kid was scared probably cause the cop was going to search his car. Cops in Denville search every kids car at that time of night. Shame Shame officer. Evil is as Evil does.

that "perp"was a 21 year old friend of mine from Rockaway who was a good kid, didn't see the need to take his life away, Denville pigs are going to have some explaining to do

If he was coming off of Rt. 46 that didn't give him much road to get his speed to 100 mph - especially if he was already stopped.

I feel bad for both the family of this young man and the police officer.

You people are nuts and should be ashamed bashing the cops! Nice kid or not, he was also driving 100 mph up MY street, evading the police. Then he grabbed a cop and tried dragging him. That's when they shot him. Denville has the finest cops around. I am very sorry the kid died, but you can't expect to do what he did and NOT be shot at.

I am sure the kid wasn't going 100 MPH. And he wasn't just shot at. He was killed. If he wasn't speeding that fast the cop would have never even gotten a shot off. Let alone a fatal one. The cop did a bad job, and should be disciplined. He killed a person he is paid to protect.

He was in a 25 mph zone going extremely fast - is that better? And the job of the police is to protect and serve. They have to protect the public from people who are evading police, speeding down small side streets and dragging police officers!!!

"Killed a person he is paid to protect" -- sounds to me like he was protecting other, innocent people from this kid. On the couple of occasions that I have been stopped by the police (for doing 42 in a 25), I stop. And I stay stopped until it's time to go. And I don't want to hear all the crap about how the kid was probably afraid -- if he wasn't doing anything wrong, he had nothing to fear. My sympathies to the officer.

Sorry, but I checked his myspace page. He didn't seem to be very "upstanding". I don't ever speak ill of the dead, but I feel I must defend the police on this one.

The perps name is Ruben Martinez. If the use of force was excessive, then the officers will be held accountable. WAIT FOR THE FACTS.