Mahwah Police Awarded for Response to Murder-Suicide
Police entered a Mahwah home last June not knowing if a man who planned to shoot his wife and himself was alive or dead
Mahwah Police officers who entered a Mahwah home last June not knowing whether or not a shooter was alive or dead were awarded for their swift response to what later proved to be a murder-suicide. A handful of Mahwah officers were recognized last month by the Bergen County Police Chiefs Association at the County Police Academy Graduation for their response to a Polo Club home in which an 82-year-old man shot and killed his wife and then himself. In a release about the award, Police Chief Jim Batelli gave some insight into what the response was like, from the PD’s point of view: The officers responded to a Mahwah residence after a husband threatened to kill his wife and them himself. The responding officers found the doors locked and no one…
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Andy Schmidt
2:32 pm on Thursday, January 10, 2013
According to the original report... Mahwah Police were alerted to the scene by an early morning phone call from the couple’s daughter saying her father had called her to tell her he "had killed her mother, and was going to kill himself,” As far as details about the scene (e.g., who was found where in what condition, and if there was a note in addition to the phone call), those are really things … more ›