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New Jersey Herald Colleagues and neighbors in two Sussex County towns mourned the loss of Jason Franco on Wednesday, remembering the Hamburg police officer and Montague volunteer firefighter killed the previous day on a family hunting trip. We re all in shock, Hamburg Mayor Paul Marino said in a telephone interview, pausing to remember when the 38-year-old Franco arrived at his mother s home for an emergency call. He couldn t have been any nicer to her, Marino recalled. Franco, who was hired as patrolman in April 2018, was deer hunting with a group near Havens Road in Wantage when a juvenile in the party accidentally fired a weapon and struck Franco shortly before 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, said Larry Hajna, a spokesman for the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, which investigated the incident. ....