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Newark Hospital Walk-in Shooting Victim Shot on Newark-Irvington Township Border

Newark

Police are investigating the motive behind a shooting that injured a man this evening on the Newark-Irvington border.

According to police, officials at University Hospital contacted authorities when the victim entered the emergency room suffering a gunshot wound around 5:30 p.m.

Police say the man told them he was shot in the vicinity of 15th Avenue and South 18th Street.

Police searched the area and found evidence that a shooting occurred on the Irvington side of the border 15th Avenue and Vine Street.

The extent of the victim's injuries were not reported as life-threatening.

Police said the suspect remains at-large.

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