Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and Acting Newark Police Director Sheilah Coley have announced that authorities are investigating a fatal shooting that occurred in Newark late this afternoon. Newark police responded to the intersection of Irvine Turner Boulevard and Spruce Street shortly before 5:00 pm on a report of a shooting. Arriving police officers discovered that three individuals, two males and a female had been shot. One male was pronounced dead at the scene and the female was pronounced dead at University Hospital. The other male victim is currently being treated at an area hospital
This incident is being investigated by the Essex County 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 Unit.
Anyone with information is asked to contact task force detectives at (877) 847-7432 or (973) 621-4586.
No further information is available at this time.