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A New Jersey police officer has died two months after he was shot during a struggle with a suspect, authorities said Sunday.
Deptford cop Robert Shisler “paid the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty” when he succumbed to his injuries Sunday, police chief Joseph Smith said in a press release.
The 27-year-old officer was rushed to the hospital on March 10 after he and armed suspect Mitchell Negron exchanged gunfire, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office said.
Shisler fatally shot Negron, who was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Negron ran from Shisler after the officer tried to stop the 24-year-old while he was walking, the attorney general’s office said in March. A .38 special revolver belonging to Negron was recovered at the scene, NJ.com reported.
“Our deepest sympathies are with the Shisler family during this difficult time of bereavement,” Smith, the police chief, said.
