New Jersey State officials are investigating the death of one man in Pemberton Township, NJ after reports of a house fire escalated into a police-involved shooting. According to “The Philadelphia Inquirer”,

The Office of the Attorney General is investigating the death of a man after a shootout with police broke out at the scene of a reported house fire in Burlington County on Saturday.

Following a report of a house fire in South Jersey, a Burlington County man was killed after allegedly shooting at police on Saturday evening.

It happened Saturday in the Browns Mills section of Pemberton Township. Authorities say a firearm was discovered next to the male victim.

A man was killed after shooting at police who were responding to a reported fire at a South Jersey home on Saturday, investigators said. According to officials in Burlington County, the incident began after first responders arrived to a home on Woodland Avenue in Pemberton Township earlier in the day for a reported fire.