#Marshals, SWAT team in standoff with gunman in New Jersey

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A police car at the scene of a shooting in Paterson, New Jersey, late Tuesday night.
Christopher Sadowski

US Marshals are involved in a standoff with a gunman holed up in a New Jersey apartment who is suspected in a New York City homicide, according to reports.

A SWAT team and other heavily armed law enforcement officers are at the scene at Hamilton Avenue and Straight Street in Paterson, according to a reporter from The Record.

Mayor Andre Sayegh said the suspect is wanted on a murder warrant in the Big Apple, according to WNBC.

The NYPD referred questions to Paterson police, which said it had no information to release yet.

It was unclear if the case was related to an earlier shooting in Paterson in which at least four people were killed and three others wounded on Tuesday night.

Sayegh said it was possible the killings were in retaliation by one or more recently released gang members, according to WNBC.

A message left with the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office was not immediately returned.

Additional reporting by Amanda Woods