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Robert Nguyen Nguyen
Followed by Officers Carson and Nguyen, who were dispatched to provide extra flares, two Jersey City officers were initially sent to the bridge.  After dropping off the flares, Officers Carson and Nguyen drove away and two other officers running frantically behind them to stop them. Officer Nguyen's family has notified state officials of plans to sue for wrongful death. The chief of the Jersey City Police Department blamed state transportation officials on Friday for the deaths of two officers, Shawn Carson and Robert Nguyen, who drove off an open vertical lift bridge, saying that the bridge was in chronic disrepair and that the operators compounded the danger by failing to tell the officers exactly when the deck was going to be raised. Chief Robert A. Troy delivered a minute-by-minute report of the Christmas night accident, from the first businesslike call that the bridge needed to be lifted for a passing tugboat to the final grief-streaked radio transmissions made seconds after the two officers into the frigid waters of the Hackensack River. Officer Nguyen's family has notified state officials of plans to sue for wrongful death.