NPD-1 Aviation Unit on a funeral detail for fallen Newark Police Detective Irvine Callender broke away from the somber event to assist in locating suspects who fled the scene in a vehicle after firing shots that caused injuries in a nearby section of the city's South Ward.
According to a preliminary investigating, multiple rounds of gunfire erupted in the 100 block of Elizabeth Avenue near Milford Street around 1:20 p.m. on Sunday.
Several officers rushed to the scene and found a male victim suffering a non-life-threatening gunshot wound in his leg at that location.
Police say the victim was transported to the hospital where he is expected to make a full recover.
NPD-1 received information that an armed male suspect -who wore a blue shirt- fired rounds in the direction of the victim before fleeing southbound on Milford Street in a blue car.
The motive for the shooting remains under investigation.