A white Ford van with possible connections to the Jersey City hate crime killings of a police officer and three others was discovered Saturday morning about 12 miles from the scene of the rampage, the FBI announced.
The vehicle, with New Jersey license plates, was found parked in a lot on Central Ave. in Orange, N.J., with the FBI planning to examine the van for any evidence connected to the Tuesday afternoon killings of Jersey City Detective Joseph Seals and three people inside a kosher supermarket, officials said.
Authorities believe the slain killers, David Anderson and Francine Graham, were living in the van after they were evicted from her Elizabeth, N.J., townhouse last year. Neighbors described the couple as increasingly erratic in the months before they were tossed from the home.
On the day of the killings, the two drove to the JC Kosher Supermarket in a stolen U-Haul rental van, with a security video capturing the killers as they opened fire while casually walking toward the business. Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop suggested they also intended to shoot up an adjoining Jewish school with 50 students.
Anderson, 47, and Graham, 50, were killed inside the store after a three-hour firefight with cops in which the anti-Semitic couple fired off hundreds of shots at police.
