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UPDATE: 10-Year-Old Child Shot Dead, Mom Injured in Asbury Park Shooting

Jersey City

A night of gun violence in an Asbury Park neighborhood has the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office investigating a homicide.

Gunfire erupted in the 400 block of Ridge Avenue just before 11 p.m. sending over a dozen of police and law enforcement personnel to the scene where they found two victims suffering gunshot wounds at that location.

Monmouth Prosecutor said identified the 10-year-old boy as Yovanni Banos-Merino and his mother as Lilia Merino, 38.

Witnesses at the scene say EMS rushed the child away from the scene providing CPR and other life-saving techniques.

Police set up a large crime scene that stretched about a block with at least one house struck by bullets according to authorities.

The investigation remains active and ongoing.

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