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NJ Attorney General Investigating Police-Involved Shooting

UPPER DEERFIELD TOWNSHIP, N.J. (CBS/AP) -- The New Jersey Attorney General is looking into an overnight police shooting in rural Cumberland County.

It appears a 911 call that apparently sent state troopers to the wrong house in southern New Jersey Friday night led to an exchange of gunfire that wounded a 76-year-old man.

That house was well off the highway.

Police dispatchers received the 911 call from a cellphone at about 11:30 p.m., but the caller hung up without providing a location. The call appeared to have come from a house on Centerton Road, and two uniformed state troopers responded.

As the troopers approached the back door and knocked, a single shot was fired from inside.

Troopers responded with four of their own, wounding 76-year-old Gerald Sykes. He was medevaced to Cooper University Hospital where he was reported in critical but stable condition, according to the attorney general's office.

One trooper suffered a graze wound either from the shotgun or from flying glass. Both troopers were treated and released from Inspira Medical Center in Vineland.

Following normal protocol, the New Jersey Attorney General is conducting a formal investigation.

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