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Atlantic City, New Jersey
Missouri and Atlantic avenues
Date March 27, 2014
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Authorities ID Suspect Shot, Killed in Atlantic City Following Police Pursuit
Normalized · March 27, 2014 / 9:00 PM EDT
Authorities said a police pursuit that began after reports of a man with a gun in Pleasantville ended in Atlantic City with an exchange of gunfire between police and the suspect. The suspect, identified as 27-year-old Antoquan T. Watson of Williamstown, was pronounced dead at the scene. No officers were injured, and the shooting remained under investigation.
A police pursuit that began in Pleasantville ended in Atlantic City on Thursday after an exchange of gunfire between police and a suspect, according to investigators. Acting Atlantic County Prosecutor Jim McClain identified the suspect as 27-year-old Antoquan T. Watson of Williamstown. Watson was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:20 p.m. Thursday. Investigators said the incident began around 12:30 p.m. after two 911 calls reported a man with a gun at La Escondida II Restaurant in the 700 block of Black Horse Pike in Pleasantville. According to investigators, the man fled Pleasantville police in a vehicle, traveling east on Route 322 through the West Atlantic City section of Egg Harbor Township and onto Albany Avenue. The vehicle then turned south on West End Avenue into Ventnor, returned to Albany Avenue via West End Avenue, continued east on Albany Avenue, and then north on Atlantic Avenue. The pursuit ended at Missouri and Atlantic avenues in Atlantic City, near the foot of the Atlantic City Expressway and close to Tanger Outlets The Walk. Investigators said gunfire was exchanged between the suspect and police, and the suspect was killed. Police units from Pleasantville, Egg Harbor Township, and Atlantic City were involved in the pursuit, according to investigators. It was unclear from the report which department's officers fired the fatal shots. No police officers were injured. An autopsy was scheduled for Friday morning by the New Jersey State Medical Examiner's Office. The police-involved shooting remained under investigation by the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office.
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