Bayonne man shot in face in vicious Jersey City robbery; two others also injured
A Bayonne man was shot in the face after he hesitated to give up his wallet during a Jersey City robbery early this morning, according to police report. Two Jersey City men were also injured in the savage attack, which to place at about 1:45 a.m. at the intersection of Communipaw Avenue and Whiton Street, according to police reports....
A man was shot in the face after he hesitated to give up his wallet on Communipaw Avenue in Jersey City early this morning.A Bayonne man was shot in the face after he hesitated to give up his wallet during a Jersey City robbery early this morning, according to police report.
Two Jersey City men were also injured in the savage attack, which to place at about 1:45 a.m. at the intersection of Communipaw Avenue and Whiton Street, according to police reports.
The three men had left a party on Pine Street when they were approached by two men in their 20s who asked them for cigarettes. They said they didn’t have any and kept walking, but the men followed and then one of the men pulled out a silver-colored handgun and told the men to get into an ally, according to the reports.
Once in the ally the gunman said, “give me all you have.” He searched a 19-year-old man from Romaine Avenue in Jersey City and took $16 and a cell phone. Then he smashed the man in the face causing a cut to the man’s ear that required four stitches, according to the report.
The gunman then turned to a 22-year-old from JFK Boulevard in Jersey City and hit him in the face with gun, knocking the man unconscious and injuring his jaw, according to the report.
When the third victim, a 24-year-old man from Avenue C in Bayonne, hesitated to give up his wallet, the gunman put him in a headlock and shot him in the cheek, according to the report.
The men were taken to Jersey City Medical Center.
