Thursday, December 12, 2019 12:13AM ET
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JERSEY CITY, New Jersey — Fears that a deadly shooting at a Jewish market in Jersey City was an anti-Semitic attack mounted on Wednesday as authorities recounted how a man and woman deliberately pulled up to the place in a stolen rental van with at least one rifle and got out firing.
A day after the gunbattle and standoff that left six people dead – the two killers, a police officer and three people who had been inside the store – state and federal law enforcement officials warned they have not established the motive for the attack.
“The why and the ideology and the motivation – that’s what we’re investigating,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said, adding that authorities are also trying to determine if anyone else was involved.
But Mayor Steve Fulop said surveillance video of the attackers made it clear they targeted the kosher market, and he pronounced the bloodshed a hate crime against Jews, as did New York’s mayor and governor….