The driver, 51-year-old Kevin S. Varner of Hammond, Indiana, opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon on Officer Clements through his own rear window, breaking it out. Officer Clements and his
Anderson, 36, was shot as she attempted to leave the Deptford Crossing shopping center after a confrontation with a security employee in a Marshalls store.
She was one of three people who allegedly stole goods worth $3,400 from the store on Clements Bridge Road, according to an account from the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office. Store employees contacted police after recognizing the trio as alleged members of a theft ring, a court record says.
Clements fired three times as Anderson drove an SUV toward police officers, according to the prosecutor’s office. The shooting occurred moments after one officer was struck, but not seriously injured, by the vehicle s open door, it said.