Threats made with handgun at apartment complex hallway, Jersey City NJ
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WeaponsA caller reported that residents from an apartment were threatening people in the hallway with a handgun, possibly a 9mm. The caller later stated they left the scene and hung up. Police dispatched units to check on the situation near Webster Avenue in Jersey City.
Audio|Heard on: Jersey City Police
Listen to dispatch call
04:32
Transcript:
00:00
Five and four, makes way to near Webster Ave, that's near Webster Ave in Apartment 2.
00:06
He says the occupants of Apartment 5 had been threatening him ever since one of the males got out of jail the other day.
00:16
Supposed, yesterday.
00:20
Yesterday, one of the residents from Apartment 5, sorry,
00:25
threatened him with what seems to be a handgun.
00:28
So he's saying that now,
00:30
they're threatening people in the hallway.
00:33
He told me they got a handgun with them.
00:46
Yeah, nice, Sergeant.
00:47
The caller saw a handgun or he thinks they have a hand.
00:55
He said they had a handgun in the hallway making threats, and he said he thinks it was a 9mm.
01:06
All right, Sergeant.
01:07
So I've raised ears here as well.
01:14
Yes, you, Channel 3.
01:20
Mercy 4 and 3?
01:23
Mercy 469 Webster, who got two units in Ralph, pulled from apartment 2 saying that the people, the residents in Apartment 5, supposedly one of them just got out the other day,
01:32
and one of them is in the hallway making threats with a handgun.
01:36
Then he said he thinks what seems to be a 9mm.
01:44
Hi, I'm Rishi Ford.
01:45
Do we have a call history on this department area's caller?
01:50
And can we recall him and verify?
01:54
He asked him again.
02:01
He told the call-taker he saw one.
02:03
He thinks he was a nine millimeter.
02:07
As far as the history goes, um...
02:09
Just a couple of noise complaints.
02:11
Those are the most recent ones.
02:13
All right, you said that was near Webster Avenue, Apartment 5?
02:22
No, apartment 2.
02:25
That's where the call is at.
02:41
So you're responding, correct? So I'm asking the call.
02:47
Yep, that is why I'm asking the questions.
02:49
We're responding.
02:51
Okay.
02:54
Okay, responding from the South Garden.
02:56
I'm on the phone looking now.
02:57
The unit responding to that web, sure, tropical effect, so far, no answer.
03:11
Yeah,
03:16
that's correct.
03:17
Got that.
03:27
What?
03:29
Pee-P.
03:31
Pee-free. We're going to have a lot out of there.
03:34
Oh, so you're going to have a lot of them.
03:36
You're going to be the first.
03:39
It's just a lot.
03:40
Oh,
03:41
gee.
03:48
All right. Hello.
03:50
I just got off the phone with him.
03:51
I finally got through to him.
03:52
He's claiming he left the location that it was his neighbor who was being threatened.
03:57
A neighbor who he does not have a phone number two has no contact with right now.
04:02
I asked him where he was at, Sarcus and the police to see him.
04:06
He said he just got on a bus.
04:09
When I told him, I don't think the bus is run after the actor around this time, he hung up on me.
04:19
All right, so do we have an apartment for the neighbor that's allegedly being threatened?
04:25
Yep, apartment two.
04:28
All right, so we'll go check on the occupants of apartment.
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Location mentioned:
Webster Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07307
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