The primary suspect was carrying an automatic weapon, said Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy.
The shootout happened about 5 a.m. after officers approached two people, a man and a woman, heading for a car connected to an armed robbery, Comey said. Police were conducting a criminal investigation involving the pair and had been watching a vehicle used in the robbery last month in which a man was shot in the stomach.
The robbery suspects were preparing to move the parked car when the shootout began.
The man pulled out a pump-action shotgun and fired at the marked police car, blowing out the windshield, and a bullet grazed the leg of one of the officers.
"This individual came fully ready to go to war with us," said Comey. "This is not a normal shotgun. ... This is a gun meant for nothing other than to hunt a man."
He says the two suspects then ran into an apartment, where they barricaded themselves and began exchanging gunfire with the officers. Shotgun blasts shattered the door and wall.
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