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Newark West Ward Shooting Injures One

Newark New Jersey

Non-Life threatening injuries for a man found shot in the city's West Ward early this morning. 

Police responded to shots fired reports shortly before 3 a.m. where they arrived to find a man suffering a gunshot wound to the leg. 

The victim was taken to University Hospital where he was expected to survive. 

The shooting occurred around the same time that a male victim was transported by private vehicle to East Orange General Hospital suffering injury from gunfire. 

It is not immediately known if the shootings are connected.