Shawn Carson
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Shawn Carson Carson
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 Officers Shawn Carson and Robert Nguyen plunged into the frigid waters of the Hackensack River. But the report failed to clear up an essential question that how did two officers already on the bridge know the bridge was up, but not Officers Carson and Nguyen? Chief Robert A. Troy stated in a businesslike call that the bridge needed to be lifted for a passing tugboat to the final grief-streaked radio transmissions made seconds after Officers Shawn Carson and Robert Nguyen plunged into the frigid waters of the Hackensack River. Two Jersey City officers were initially sent to the bridge, followed by Officers Carson and Nguyen, who were dispatched to provide extra flares. After dropping off the flares, Officers Carson and Nguyen drove away, with the two other officers running frantically behind them to stop them.