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Hoboken Lawyer Shopping With Wife Killed in Carjacking at Upscale New Jersey Mall: Prosecutors

A Hoboken lawyer leaving an upscale New Jersey mall after shopping with his wife 10 days before Christmas was shot and killed in a carjacking Sunday, prosecutors say.

Prosecutors have identified the victim as 30-year-old Dustin Friedland. He and his wife had just left the Mall at Short Hills around 9 p.m. when he was shot at least once in the head while trying to enter his silver 2012 Range Rover, which had been parked on the third level of the deck near Nordstrom.

Police say two men approached him as he was getting into the driver's side after opening the passenger side door for his wife and opened fire. They then jumped into the car and sped off, possibly down Route 24.

Friedland was pronounced dead at the hospital. His wife was not hurt.

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[CharlesWayneCT]

Other reports said he resisted. I think unless you had a gun and could easily draw it (and I wouldn’t do that in New Jersey because who wants to go to prison), you are better off just letting them take your car.

[Alberta's Child]

Check out the photo of the Range Rover being towed from the place where it was found.

The news reports I've heard today indicate that it was found in a garage in Newark. From that photo it looks like it was found in a residential neighborhood.

This is where the law enforcement angle starts to get interesting. For better or worse, those parts of New Jersey are filled with non-violent criminals who manage to stay out of jail by being cooperative (quietly, of course) with the police whenever a high-profile crime like this brings serious heat on the neighborhood. The police know exactly who these people are, and they will roll them over to identify the two perps very quickly (if they haven't done so already).

A carjacking is one thing, but a murder in the parking garage at an upscale shopping mall will bring the kind of bad press and public scrutiny that would rival even an al-Qaeda terrorist attack.

It's a pretty old (and effective) method of solving crimes. I just thought I'd throw that out there ... for anyone who is wondering how someone like Al Sharpton has managed to keep his nose so clean over the years.

[Moltke]

Friedland was pronounced dead at the hospital. His wife was not hurt.

I beg to differ, even if we are talking about lawyers here.