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Child Shot During Cook Out in Newark

Newark New Jersey

A late night shooting at a cook out in Newark had a child shot to head and a man suffering a gunshot wound to the arm. 

The boy was transported to University Hospital in a private at around 7 p.m. after gunfire rang out on South 17th Street. 

Authorities  responded to University Hospital shortly after an  adult victim was taken to the hospital in a private vehicle.

Police learned that a child was also shot in the head after a further investigation. The relationship between the victims is not immediately clear.  The location of the cook out was not the residence of either victims. 

Both victims are expected to survive.