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Gunman Fired Shots at Occupied Vehicle in Jersey City

Jersey City

Jersey City Police are looking into the motive behind a shooting in one of the city's neighborhoods Saturday morning. 

It happed just before 2:45 a.m. near the intersection of North Street and John F. Kennedy Boulevard. 

Police say officers responded to reports of shots fired and arrived to find a person inside a vehicle bleeding from what appeared at the time to be a bullet wound. 

EMS arrived and determined that bullets did not strike the victim, but the vehicle's glass shattered on them after a gunman fired multiple rounds in the direction of the car. 

Police say the victim's injuries were non-life threatening and the suspect fled the scene. 

The incident is under investigation by the Jersey City Police department.

 

 

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