Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Newark Police Director Eugene Venable have announced a city resident was shot inside a store in Newark, NJ earlier this afternoon. At approximately 1:45 p.m., Newark police officers responded to a shooting call in the 800 block of South Orange Avenue. Arriving officers discovered an unresponsive male inside a store at this location. The victim, who has been identified as Michael T. Jones, age 33, was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later.
The investigation is being conducted by the Prosecutor’s Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, according to Chief Assistant Prosecutor Thomas S. Fennelly of the Prosecutor’s Homicide Squad. The investigation is continuing at this time, according to Fennelly. Anyone with information is asked to contact task force detectives at (877) 847-7432.