The Attorney General’s Shooting Response Team is investigating an officer-involved shooting that occurred about 10:15 p.m. last night in Plainfield.
Detectives of the Union County Prosecutor’s Office had information about a man who allegedly had a gun that he intended to sell in the area of the 600 block of East Second Street.
Two plain clothes detectives in an unmarked vehicle went to the area to investigate. It is alleged that when the suspect spotted the detectives in the vehicle, he fired four shots at them from behind a tree in the 600 block of East Front Street.
The detectives were not hit, but one bullet struck the windshield of the police vehicle in the lower corner on the passenger side.
The suspect, later identified as Diondre J. Quinones, 21, of Plainfield, fled on foot.
Another detective from the Union County Prosecutor’s Office – the detective who ultimately fired at the suspect – subsequently located the suspect several blocks away in the 200 block of Brook Avenue.
The detective got out of his vehicle and there was a foot pursuit, during which the officer fired two shots at Quinones. Quinones was not hit. Quinones was apprehended a short distance away. A partially loaded 9mm semiautomatic handgun was recovered by police along the route of the foot chase.
No other details of the officer-involved shooting are being released at this time because of the ongoing investigation.
Quinones was charged with first-degree attempted murder, second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon, and second- and third-degree aggravated assault. He was lodged in the Union County Jail with bail set at $1 million.