More details are emerging following a shooting Wednesday in Jersey City, New Jersey, that left six people dead, including the two alleged shooters.

Officials are now saying that a Kosher grocery store where three of the four victims were shot was specifically targeted.

“There were multiple other people on the streets,” Jersey City Public Safety Director James Shea told reporters Wednesday, according to NBC News. “There were many other targets available to them that they bypassed to attack that place. So it was, clearly, that was their target, and they intended to harm people inside there.”

The shooting started at a nearby cemetery, when Jersey City Police Detective Joseph Seals approached two suspects who were in a van that been linked to a prior homicide.

Seals, an 18-year law enforcement veteran, was shot in the back of the head and later died, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page.

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The suspects, who were armed with long guns, then took off in the van before parking outside a kosher grocery store.

A law enforcement official told The New York Times the suspects walked into the store while firing their guns. A pipe bomb was later found in their car, that official said.

A lengthy standoff ensued, with the suspects firing at both law enforcement officers who responded and innocent victims in the store.

While police had yet to name the other three victims, Rabbi Moshe Schapiro of the Chabad of Hoboken and Jersey City identified two of them as members of the Orthodox Jewish community — Leah Minda Ferencz, who owned the JC Kosher Supermarket with her husband, and her cousin Moshe Hirsch Deutsh, a rabbinical student who lived in Brooklyn, according to NorthJersey.com.

Miguel Jason Rodriguez, an Ecuadorian migrant who worked at the grocery store, was identified by his pastor as the final victim.

Officials are investigating the identity and motives of the suspects.

“Last night after extensive review of our CCTV system it has now become clear from the cameras that these two individuals targeted the Kosher grocery location on MLK Dr,” Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop tweeted.

Last night after extensive review of our CCTV system it has now become clear from the cameras that these two individuals targeted the Kosher grocery location on MLK Dr – the 2 JCPD officers that were on a foot post one block away immediately responded/engaged

— Steven Fulop (@StevenFulop) December 11, 2019

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As of early Wednesday afternoon, police had not yet publicly identified the suspects.

However, the law enforcement official told The Times that the suspects’ names were David Anderson and Francine Graham. A “manifesto-style note” was found in the van, though it did not provide a clear motive for the attack, The Times reported, citing two officials.

Four law enforcement sources also confirmed the suspects’ names to WNBC-TV.

Both outlets reported Anderson has been linked by investigators to the Black Hebrew Israelites, a black supremacy organization.

According to TheBlaze, the group was founded in the late 19th century and combined elements of both Judaism and Christianity to argue that African-Americans descended from the 12 tribes of Israel.

There are multiple offshoots of the group, though more extreme members are taught that “a vengeful black Jesus will soon return to earth to kill or enslave all white people,” the outlet reported.

Even the liberal Southern Poverty Law Center says the Black Hebrew Israelites “advocate the superiority of the black race and that African Americans represent God’s true ‘chosen people.’ As God’s ‘true’ Jews, BHI adherents believe that Jews who self-identify with Israel are ‘scam artists’ and imposters.”

Three sources told WNBC that Anderson was a one-time follower of the group.

A neighbor of Graham’s, meanwhile, told the outlet that Graham met Anderson after sustaining an injury at work.

“[The neighbor] says Graham turned into a ‘dark person’ after they met,” WNBC reported.

“The neighbor also claims Graham was coerced into a militant religion he could not identify; chanting and reading of the New Testament, translated into ‘evil,’ could be heard from her home, he said.”

Unnamed officials also said they had found anti-police and anti-Jewish postings connected to Anderson’s social media page.

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Anti-Christian insanity has officially reached new heights — and it should worry all of us.

Shields of Strength is a Beaumont, Texas, company that sells Christian-themed jewelry and accessories. It also makes replica dog tags with Bible verses on them.

So, imagine its surprise when the military came a-calling and demanded the retailer remove those verses or stop selling the dog tags.

“These are not the government-issued dog tags, these are replica dog tags,” Michael Berry of the First Liberty Institute said during a recent interview on the “Todd Starnes Show.”

“The government can’t discriminate against people and private businesses … on the basis of religion,” Berry said.

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The government disagrees.

“You are not authorized to put biblical verses on your Army products,” Army Trademark Licensing Program Director Paul Jensen told the small business, according to Fox News. “For example, Joshua 1:9. Please remove ALL biblical references from all of your Army products.”

According to the Washington Times, Shields of Strength has been making replica dog tags for 20 years under a licensing program with the Army. Now that business is in jeopardy.

First Liberty — which is representing the company in a lawsuit against the government — says the Army’s order is in violation of both the Constitution and the law.

“Your directive that SoS remove all Biblical references from its Army-licensed products is unconstitutional and violates [the Religious Freedom Restoration Act],” the group said in a Tuesday letter to the service.

Meanwhile, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation claims the company’s “proselytizing merchandise” is “a clear-cut violation” of Department of Defense policy on merchandising, according to the Army Times.

“Such craven utilization of American military logos and related symbology by this sectarian Christian group (Shields of Strength) not only viciously violates well established DoD regulatory law but also poisons the Constitutionally-mandated separation of Church and State,” MRFF founder Mikey Weinstein said in a statement.

Of course, buying the tags remains incredibly voluntary. The problem seems to be that the tags are also incredibly popular.

“If you walk on any military base, Fort Bragg, you name it, you’re likely to see someone wearing a Shields of Strength dog tag or if you go to the base exchange you can get them there,” Berry said, according to WTVD-TV.

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“I think having that on the back of the dog tag brings comfort during a time of need,” an Army vet told the outlet.

“Virtually every unit has contacted us and said, ‘Would you make us a tag with our unit on it?’ We’ve seen the fruit of the mission. Literally thousands of soldiers, airmen, marines, telling us with tears in their eyes how much it’s meant to them, and many times the Gold Star families to be in possession of the dog tag they wore,” Kenny Vaughn of Shields of Strength, according to Fox News. “I don’t understand it.”

Berry also criticized the Army for caving to the MRFF’s complaint.

“You would think the most powerful military in the world would be able to withstand the complaint of an activist group thousands of miles away, but apparently that’s all it takes to bring the military to its knees,” he said.

But on issues of religion, it seems there’s plenty of room for capitulation.

As Fox News reports, this issue has been percolating since July. The common-sense solution is to let the company make the dog tags, but when it comes to issues of religion, common sense can never prevail.

It’s almost entirely predictable. This is what always happens. There’s almost never an individual or entity that stands up for bedrock issues like freedom of religion, either under the Constitution or the First Amendment.

The MRFF has a history of this sort of thing, too.

“This is just a despicable cowardly act, really a publicity stunt, by Mikey Weinstein,” Berry said.

That’s not inaccurate. Organizations such as the MRFF and the Freedom from Religion Foundation survive on the oxygen afforded to them. If starved of that, they wither away.

They needed to be starved of that here and they weren’t. There’s still an opportunity, however, for common sense — and constitutionality — to prevail. Let’s hope the Army does the right thing here.

If it doesn’t, however, First Liberty and Shields of Strength are willing to fight on.

“Nobody who puts their life on the line defending our freedoms should not be able to enjoy those freedoms themselves,” Berry said. “We will not stop fighting for [Shields of Strength].”

Amen to that.

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