Jersey City kosher market shooting rattles tight-knit Orthodox community
Officials have not released any specific information about the suspects or the civilian victims, but Levitin says he spoke with someone who was wounded in the shooting but escaped through the back of the store. The witness told him that he saw the cashier – the wife of the store’s owner – fall down injured. He saw another customer also sustain serious injuries.
Chesky Deutsch has two children who attend the yeshiva next door.
“For the first few minutes, we didn’t know information about the school. Worried is an understatement,” he said about the moment he heard about the shooting. “My initial thought was, right away: Is the community as a whole under some sort of attack? That was my initial fear.”...
Rev. Armen Thomassian | 11/17/2015
