Off-duty Jersey City police officer who died from gunshot wound identified as Ramon Torres

The off-duty Jersey City rookie police officer who died Sunday after being found lifeless with a bullet to the torso was identified on Monday, authorities said.

Police responded to a 911 call at the Woodlawn Avenue residence in Jersey City of 32-year-old officer Ramon Torres, where he was found lifeless on Sunday around 8 p.m., the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said in a statement. Torres had a bullet wound to his torso.

First responders took Torres to Jersey City Medical Center, but he could not be saved, authorities said. He was pronounced dead just after 9 p.m. The cause of death has not been determined by the Regional Medical Examiner's Office.

Torres had been on the force for a year, working out of the West District on the midnight tour, said Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione, a spokeswoman for Jersey City's Department of Public Safety.

Dozens of police officers were outside the Jersey City Medical Center's emergency entrance following the shooting Sunday. None of the officers at the hospital would comment about the incident.

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