https://www.nj.com/news/2019/12/shooters-were-targeting-50-children-in-yeshiva-next-to-grocery-store-jersey-city-mayor-speculates.html?fbclid=IwAR1TaPQEqqTBN8dbR59agYYreqBMY4Rzfo6xwEcs--Gl9b9hP1XFhxmIvc4https://twitter.com/StevenFulop/status/1205475151430717440The Mayor is now saying that based on the evidence and video of their approach, it appears the shooter's original target was the Yeshiva school with 50 children inside of it, which was attached to the kosher market.
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“My opinion is that as more info comes out it’ll become increasingly clear that the target was the 50 children at the Yeshiva attached to that store,” the mayor wrote on Twitter just after 8 a.m. “We will never know 100% but the doorway to the yeshiva was 3 feet away (and) it seems he goes in that direction 1st.”
“Everything about it is consistent with the (the notion) that they didn’t intend to harm only four people - that they had a larger plan,” Shea said at City Hall on Friday morning. “Based on the amount of guns, the amount of ammunition, the amount of explosive devices we would have to assume they planned to do a lot more damage than we allowed them to do. The actions of those officers saved lives."
It seems like they had a larger terrorist plot in the works that was disrupted when the homicide detective recognized their vehicle from the murder they committed that weekend.
We still know basically nothing at all about why they murdered the 34 year old white guy, and probably never will since the only witnesses were the killers and they're dead. It was presumably just a hate crime against him for being white, but he might have stumbled onto their preparations for the terrorist attack and got murdered for it just like the detective.
https://twitter.com/OJPAC/status/1205171151024132096its unclear exactly how the shooters wound up in the store instead of the school, the doors were right next to each other. It appears the door to the school was locked, he first fired through and it tried the handle but didn't spend more than half a second attempting it before going into the store instead. He didn't try to force his way through the door, unlike the anti-semitic mass shooter in Germany who got stymied by the security measures.