He was wounded after lunging at a law enforcement officer with a knife, authorities said.
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A Hackensack police officer shot 26-year-old man inside a Clay Street home last night after he spent about a week at-large.
Santos-Alvarez was wanted on two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of his estranged girlfriend and their young son.
In Hackensack on Thursday night, a neighbor who said he did not want his name used said he saw a number of police officers with dogs in the area before the incident. “One shot was sacked to the abdomen area”, said Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli, who added that Santos-Alvarez is expected to survive. “They were advised no one was in the apartment, but as they went further, they realized someone was in the back and it was the suspect”.
Michael Mordaga, the director of the Hackensack Police Department, confirmed it was a Hackensack officer who fired but declined to release any information about him, NJ Advance Media reported. Eyewitness News is told that this was a non-life threatening injury. The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office issued a warrant for Santos-Alvarez Saturday. No officers are said to be injured.
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After the incident, the man said, he saw police officers handcuff a woman in the yard of the house on Clay Street and remove her from the scene. Christopher, 4, and Monika Potoczniak, 27, were found suffocated and strangled in their Jersey City Heights home on October. 7. They were both taken to the hospital where they were pronounced dead a short time later, authorities said.
