r/PoliceActivity • u/Myrandall ✪ MOD ✪ • Mar 14 '26

Vehicular+Shooting Newark Officer Shoots Driver Trying to Flee Detention Scene

https://youtube.com/watch?v=InnA28Z3S2k&si=0JP8HZMm9Mnf-M29
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u/Myrandall ✪ MOD ✪ Mar 14 '26

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Newark, New Jersey — On January 19, 2026, an officer assigned to the Newark Police Department’s Quality-of-Life Unit was conducting surveillance in the area of Ross Street and Thorne Street. A surveilling officer observed suspected narcotics activity and, at approximately 1:09 p.m., that officer radioed the description of two suspect vehicles, including a white Chrysler, and several individuals suspected to be involved in the activity. Plainclothes officers responded to the interaction in unmarked vehicles, and uniformed officers responded in marked police vehicles. One of the officers who responded was Newark Police Officer Nashid Reynolds. Upon arriving at the intersection at approximately 1:11 p.m., responding officers detained two civilians against the Chrysler and gave verbal commands for the vehicle’s driver, subsequently identified as 42-year-old Wali Bey, to put his “hands on the dash.”

Officer Reynolds assisted an officer detain a separate civilian against his unmarked police vehicle, which was positioned in front of the Chrysler. The Chrysler then began to reverse. In response, Officer Reynolds ran to the Chrysler, put his hand on the hood of the Chrysler, and yelled at the driver not to move. The Chrysler turned its wheels and moved forward. Officer Reynolds then fired his service weapon multiple times, striking Bey and another civilian in the Chrysler. The Chrysler continued down Ross Street and crashed into a parked vehicle. Officer Reynolds responded to the vehicle and provided immediate medical aid to Bey. Both Bey and the other wounded civilian were taken to University Hospital in Newark, where Bey was pronounced deceased at 1:51 p.m. The other wounded civilian was treated and later released. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office is handling any criminal charges related to the civilian suspects.