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BREAKING: Three Victims Shot in Newark’s Lower West Ward

Newark

Police are on the scene of a shooting with three people struck by gunfire in Newark’s lower West Ward.

An armed suspect fired multiple rounds of bullets in the 50’s block of North 12th Street around 4:15 p.m. 

Officers arrived at the scene and found shell casings and a male suffering gunshot wounds. 

While EMS transported the victim to the hospital, officials at University Hospital notified police that two additional victims entered the emergency department suffering bullet wounds. 

Detectives from Newark’s Major Crimes Tash Force are on the scene leading the investigation. 

The suspect remains at large.

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