Police in Newark are investigating a shooting that injured a juvenile in the city’s West Ward Friday evening.
Police said the shooting happened before 7:40 p.m. in the 800 block of 18th Avenue.
According to a preliminary investigation, the boy was found at his home on Melrose suffering a bullet wound in his leg.
Police set up a crime scene near the intersection where they found shell casings from the shooting and projectiles from an unreported shots-fired incident from earlier in the day.
The motive for the attack is under investigation.
Newark closed the overnight with five-reported- shots fired incidents that connected on three victims with no fatalities.
There was an armed carjacking of a woman this afternoon in the North Ward that the morning crew will bring to you on Sunday.