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Posted: 2019-12-11T18:59:12Z | Updated: 2019-12-12T11:57:06Z

A kosher market in Jersey City was targeted Tuesday during a shooting that left six people dead , New Jersey officials said.

The four victims included a veteran police officer and three bystanders. The two shooters were also killed, according to police .

The shooting began near Jersey Citys Bay View cemetery, where the officer was killed, and then moved to a kosher supermarket about a mile away, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said during a press conferences on Wednesday.

The attack appears to have deeply impacted a group of Hasidic Jewish families who recently relocated to Jersey City from Brooklyn, New York, in response to rising real estate prices in their previous neighborhood.

We are not safe in the New York Metropolitan area, Rabbi David Niederman, executive director of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn (UJO), which serves Brooklyns Hasidic Jewish groups, said Wednesday during a news conference.

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said surveillance footage shows the gunmen driving slowly through the citys streets, stopping outside the kosher grocery store and opening fire.

Grewal has stopped short of characterizing the shooting as an anti-Semitic attack or ascribing a motive to the killers.

But Fulop said Wednesday that the assault was a clear hate crime and an attack on the Jewish community. He confirmed reports that at least one of the shooters had published anti-Semitic posts on their social media pages. He said there was a pipe bomb in the shooters vehicle that betrayed an intent to hurt many more people.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio also said Wednesday that the attack was clearly a hate crime.

Rabbi Moshe Schapiro, who leads the Chabad of Hoboken, told HuffPost that Hasidic Jews began moving to Jersey City from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, about five years ago because they were priced out. He said the community has now grown to about 100 families.

The Hasidic community in Jersey City is now focusing on caring for their children and making funeral arrangements, he said.

Today, we were attacked but what we should do is fight bigotry and fight hatred with love and kindness, Schapiro said. Well leave to the law enforcement to find out why it happened and who were they targeting, but today its us, it could be someone else tomorrow as weve seen so many shootings.

These are the victims of the attack. The list will be updated as more information emerges.