Police officers who fired at Christopher Apostolus told investigators that he tried to get control of a service weapon, and that they feared for their lives.
Newly-issued information about the individual who died in Tuesday's police-involved shooting in Toms River indicates that he lived in the complex where it occurred, but a different apartment.
A shooting just outside downtown Toms River, in which police allegedly killed a 56-year-old man, undergoes intense scrutiny by detectives in the Ocean County Prosecutor's major crimes unit.