A shooting that shocked Jersey City s tight-knit Jewish community left six dead on Tuesday evening after two armed men barricaded themselves in a kosher supermarket, Hungary s Jewish news portal reports.

A shootout in Jersey City, New Jersey, on Tuesday evening left six dead and several injured.

Gunfire started in the local cemetery where police had identified two men who were behaving suspiciously. The two young gunmen shot and killed one of the officers and injured the other. They then fled the scene and barricaded themselves in Jersey City s kosher supermarket.

According to the Jerusalem Post, the gunmen found their way into the supermarket randomly. On Tuesday evening, Jersey City police chief said there is no indication that the incident was terrorism-related”.

The hours-long shootout at the supermarket claimed five lives, including the two gunmen, who it was assumed had shot the officer dead in the cemetery.

Although police are yet to release any information on the identity of the victims, the Israeli media was quick to publish their names. According to Collive, the victims of the deadly shootout included Moshe Hersh Deutsch, the 24-year-old son of the leader of the Satmar (Hasidic) community and Leah Mindel Ferentz, the store owner s wife.

Jersey City mayor Steven Fulop paid tribute to murdered police officer, Joseph Seals. He tweeted that 40-year old was a „great cop and an excellent father of five children.”

The ordeal has rattled New Jersey s small Orthodox Jewish community of around one hundred families, most of whom have moved to the neighbourhood from Brooklyn in recent years.