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”,

An investigation is underway after police in Pemberton Township, New Jersey, shot and killed a man in Browns Mills.

PEMBERTON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (WPVI) -- Authorities in Burlington County are investigating a shooting that broke out after emergency crews were called to a house fire on Saturday. Firefighters were initially dispatched to a home on the unit block of Woodland Avenue in Pemberton Township around 4 p.m. for reports of a fire.

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

Police shot and killed a man Saturday in a rural section of a southern New Jersey township after authorities initially responded to a report of a house fire, according to state officials.

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.

An investigation is underway into afatal police shooting here. The state Attorney General’s Office has released few details about the incident, saying only that the victim, a man, was fatally shot in the Browns Mills area on Saturday.

The New Jersey Attorney General's Office is investigating a police-involved shooting that left a citizen dead on Saturday, Oct. 19, the office said. The incident occurred in Browns Mills in Pemberton Township (Burlington County),