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BREAKING NEWARK NJ: Man Shot in the Neck in Newark’s South Ward

Newark

There is a crime scene established and an investigation underway as police look into a shooting that has a male suffering severe injuries in the city’s South Ward at this time.

Police responded to just under a dozen rounds of gunfire that erupted in the 900 block of Frelinghuysen Avenue at approximately 5:15 p.m. where they arrived at the scene and found the unconscious and unresponsive victim critically wounded at that location,

Detectives are on the scene collecting scores of shell casings and other evidence while EMS is tending to the victim.

The suspect fled the scene immediately after the shootings.

ECPO UPDATE 6:52PM: ”I can confirm that the Essex County Prosecutor's Major Crimes Task Force is investigating a shooting incident on Frelinghuysen Ave. One male fatality. Early stages of the investigation”.

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