Short Hills Mall shooting victim Dustin Friedland enjoyed running trained ...

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MILLBURN Dustin Friedland was an athlete in high school swimming competitively for Toms River High School North.

While attending law school at Syracuse University he would run once entering the 10 mile Dunn Tire Mountain Goat Run not with an especially fast time but finishing at a sub 8 minute pace.

And when he moved to Hoboken he joined the local running club the Hoboken Harriers.

He fit right in. He was very outgoing said Frank Magaletta a Montclair attorney who ran with Friedland. He was a real decent guy. He could talk to anybody.

Friedland 30 was shot and killed Sunday night at the Mall in Short Hills in what authorities are describing as a carjacking gone bad. According to the Essex County Prosecutor s office he and his wife had gone to the mall to do some shopping and were heading back to their car on the second floor of a mall parking deck shortly after 9 p.m. when they were attacked by two unidentified assailants. Two shots were fired and Friedland was hit in the head.

Their car a 2012 silver Range Rover was taken and recovered earlier today behind a vacant house in Newark s South Ward just a few blocks from Route 78 about eight miles east of the mall.

Friedland was declared dead later at Morristown Memorial Hospital. His wife Jamie Schare was not injured.

Magaletta said Friedland had only recently joined the club.

Dustin Friedland 30 was shot and killed at the Mall at Short Hills on Sunday night according to law enforcement sources. Facebook

He had not raced. He was gearing up to get fit said Magaletta a long time Harrier runner who knows most of its members. He learned of the shooting earlier this morning on the radio and then immediately recognized Friedland s name when it was released.

I said Oh God please tell me it s not him he said.

The club known as HoHa organized training runs during the week and on weekends. Friedland ran with them on Thursday nights often ending at a local bar like Moran s Pub on Garden Street to socialize afterward.

Magaletta said Friedland struck up conversations with everybody.

We all knew he was a lawyer. Even though he was a relatively new member he fit right in he recalled.

According to a LinkedIn social media profile Friedland was a project manager who analyzed legal claims at a Neptune contracting firm Epic Mechanical Inc. which is owned by his father Wayne. Records show the Range Rover was registered to the company.

Friedland and his wife who apparently met each other in Syracuse were married in October 2011. The couple had no children.

The Essex County Sheriff s Crime Stoppers program is offering a $10 000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of the two suspects. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Essex County Prosecutor s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force tips line at (877) 847 7432

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