Marc DiNardo

Jersey City Police Officer Marc DiNardo, the most seriously injured of the five cops shot Thursday during a shootout on Reed Street, remains hospitalized in critical condition this morning, according to JCPD spokesman Lt. Edgar Martinez. Rumors that he had succumbed to his injuries last night are false, Martinez said.

A 10-year veteran of the Jersey City police force assigned to the Emergency Services Unit, the 37-year-old DiNardo was shot in the face and had to be resuscitated several times that morning, officials said. The condition of the other officer still hospitalized, 25-year-old Michael Camacho, was upgraded from critical but stable condition to "serious but guarded," Martinez said yesterday.

In all, four Jersey City police officers and a Port Authority police officer were shot and two suspects killed during an investigation into the case of a man shot on Broadway last month that had been caught on surveillance video. On Friday, law enforcement officials said the suspects -- 32-year-old Hassain Hosendove and his wife, 22-year-old Amanda Anderson -- may have been responsible for a string of armed robberies from South Carolina to New Jersey.