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The police say 27-year-old Joseph Pallipurath fatally shot his estranged wife and another person and injured a third inside a church in Clifton, NJ. The Star-Ledger reports that Pallipurath's wife Reshma James had fled her husband and their California home "to live with a relative in New Jersey... and even took out a restraining order against" him. But he tracked her down at the Thomas Syrian Orthodox Church; witnesses say Pallipurath said, "You are my wife, I'm taking you, you have to come with me." James refused and Pallipurath shot her in the head as well as Dennis John, who tried to intervene. James's cousin Silvy Perincheril was also critically wounded. Pallipurath fled the scene in a 1994 green Jeep with California plates; he is considered armed and dangerous.

In New York, there's the Staten Island Ninja Burglar, who stealthily entered homes to steal money and other valuables. In NJ, there's the would-be Shinobi ninja warriors who were trying to rid the streets of drugs, by way of threatening letters.

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