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A 911 call at about 6:30 a.m. reported a domestic disturbance at a residence in the first block of West 1st Street in Bayonne.

Uniformed Bayonne police officers responded and met with a resident, who spoke with them about Lee Waskiewicz, 47. The resident escorted the officers into the home and called Waskiewicz down from the third floor.

When Waskiewicz saw the officers, he went back upstairs and out of sight in the doorway of an attic. Officer Edward Taveras asked him to come down to talk, and Waskiewicz yelled for the officers to leave and threatened to stab them. He then came back to the stairs armed with a knife.

During a second interaction in the stairwell, Officers Timothy Ballance, Jr. and Edward Taveras fired their service weapons, fatally wounding Waskiewicz. Officers rendered medical aid until emergency medical personnel arrived and took him to Bayonne Medical Center, where he was pronounced deceased at about 7:43 a.m.

Watch the video of this incident here.