

PERTH AMBOY – City police officers who fatally shot Dixon Rodriguez in front of his Hall Street home last year could not tell investigators how many times they fired their weapons or how many times their bullets hit him, according to recently released documents obtained by the Courier News and Home News Tribune.

Rodriguez, 32, was shot Dec. 4, 2013 after allegedly pulling a knife on two Perth Amboy police officers who came to his home after his mother reported the emotionally disturbed man refused to take his medication.

In their report, the officers wrote “Unk” on lines asking for number of shots fired and number of hits, according to the Courier News and Home News Tribune. The officers reportedly have not updated their report in the three months since the shooting.

“The fact that the use of force reports are dated two weeks after the incident and that both police officers don’t know how many rounds were fired raises more questions than it answers,” Gary J. Chester, a Kinnelon attorney representing Rodriguez’s family, told the publication.

Chester has notified the city he plans to sue on behalf of Rodriguez’s family.

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