A request for information by RLS Metro Breaking News regarding a police involved shooting of a man in the parking lot of a White Castle in Newark by State Police had a spokesperson releasing information from the March shooting.
In a statement released today, a spokesperson for the Attorney Generals Office said the shooting occurred shortly after 6 p.m. on March 18, 2015.
Members of the New Jersey State Police were on routine patrol in Newark, when they spotted a gray 2012 Porsche Cayenne driven by Kenneth Daniels, 29, of Newark in the area of Dayton Street that had been reported stolen the spokesperson said. Officers followed the vehicle to the White Castles on Elizabeth Avenue in the city's South Ward, where it entered the rear drive-through ordering area.
The spokesperson said, State Police Officers positioned an unmarked vehicle behind the Porsche, two troopers then drove around the Porsche in a marked vehicle while the Porsche was stopped and officers attempted to block it in. Authorities said, Daniels, later drove the car in reverse and rammed the unmarked police vehicle. Daniels then accelerated forward in the direction of one of the troopers from the marked police vehicle, who was on foot at that time the spokesperson said.
That trooper fired multiple rounds from his service weapon, striking Daniels in the right shoulder. The Porsche subsequently struck a tree in the rear of the parking lot and came to rest where officers placed Daniels under arrest according to the spokesperson.
Daniels was transported to University Hospital in Newark, where he was treated and released a short time later for a flesh wound where he was later charged with attempted murder, receiving stolen property, eluding police, unlawful possession of a weapon (the car), and four counts of aggravated assault. He was lodged in the Essex County Jail with bail set at $500,000 cash.
The investigation by the Shooting Response Team is ongoing the spokesperson added.