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Date: 
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Area: 
Trenton-NJ
A township man was hit and killed by a police car on New York Avenue as the officer was responding to a report of a suspicious person on Saturday night. Keith Atkinson Jr., 23, was struck around 11:15 p.m. while he was walking in the road. The police officer was dispatched to the 1400 block of New York Avenue for a report of man who tried to enter a residence by forcing his way through a door. The homeowner confronted the man, who appeared to be intoxicated, and the intruder left on foot.