Authorities have four men in custody in the killing of 30-year-old Dustin Friedland as he and his wife boarded their luxury SUV in the Short Hills mall parking lot on Dec. 15, a spokeswoman from the Essex County prosecutor's office said.
Friedman, a beloved lawyer from Hoboken, had just finished loading holiday gifts into his silver 2012 Range Rover on Sunday Dec. 15 outside of the mall when two men ambushed him and attempted to steal the SUV. Friedman resisted in an apparent attempt to protect his wife.
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During the scuffle, one of the men shot Friedman four times,Authorities have four men in custody for killing 30-year-old Dustin Friedland as he and his wife boarded their luxury SUV in the Short Hills mall parking lot on Dec. 15, a spokeswoman from the Essex County prosecutor’s office said.
Friedman, a beloved lawyer from Hoboken, had just finished loading holiday gifts into his silver 2012 Range Rover on Sunday Dec. 15 outside of the mall when two men ambushed him and attempted to steal the SUV. Friedman resisted in an apparent attempt to protect his wife. During the scuffle, one of the men shot Friedman four times, before forcing his wife out of the vehicle.
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Friedman was rushed to a hospital, where he died. The SUV was found behind an abandoned house in Newark the next day.
Six days after the attack, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office said they had four suspects in custody.
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