Chris Sheldon
NJ Advance Media Group
JERSEY CITY — The family of Jersey City Police Detective Joseph Seals received a special gift last week courtesy of the New Jersey State Police and the New York Jets.
Seals’ family gathered at the American Dream mall in East Rutherford and troopers surprised them with personalized football jersey and Jets gear, courtesy of the state police and the team, the State Police said in a Facebook post.
The jerseys were personalized with Seals’ police badge number.
https://www.facebook.com/NewJerseyStatePolice/posts/2596646260389900
Seals, 40, was killed in the line of duty on Dec. 10 in Bayview Cemetery when he confronted David Anderson and Francine Graham in their stolen U-Haul van. The pair then went on to massacre three people at a kosher grocery store -- Moshe Deutsch, 24, Leah Minda Ferencz, 33; and Miguel Douglas, 49, in the city’s Greenville neighborhood.
Anderson and Graham were killed following a standoff with police that lasted more than four hours.
In 2008, Seals was hailed as a hero cop when he and his partner broke through an apartment window to tackle and arrest a man who was sexually assaulting a woman. He was serving on the anti-gun, Cease Fire unit when he was killed.