A New Jersey prosecutor’s office says it has been left “utterly devastated’ after one of its veteran detectives was shot and killed this week during a home invasion.

Police in Bridgeton, New Jersey, are mourning one of their own after a Cumberland County detective was shot and killed during an apparent home invasion on Tuesday night. At around 10:30 p.m., Bridgeton police responded to a report of several people kicking in a front door at a home on the 600 block of Buckshutem Road.

Loved ones are mourning a Cumberland County detective who was shot and killed during a home invasion in Bridgeton, New Jersey, Tuesday night.