Skip to main content

Serious Injuries Reported in Newark East Ward Shooting

Newark

UPDATE 12:03 p.m. This is a homicide investigation.

EMS rushed a male victim to University Hospital this morning after a shooting in the city's East Ward.

Reports of shots fired that rang out in the 300 block of Mulberry Street had police at the scene shortly before 2:30 a.m. where officers found the victim shot in the head at that location.

Police focused their attention on a vehicle found in the parking lot with a bullet hole in the rear driver's side window.

The extent of the victim's injuries were not released.

The motive for the shooting is under investigation.