The second shooting in less than ten days on a Newark South Ward street had a female victim injured, but police say multiple social media accounts that the victim of Monday evening's incident was a 13-year-old girl is false.
According to a statement released by Newark Police officials, EMS transported the unidentified victim to University Hospital for treatment of a non-life threatening gunshot wound to the arm when an unknown gunman fired shots in the teens block of Stratford Place just before 6:45 p.m.
Police officers arrived at the scene and secured the area while they searched for a suspect and collected evidence according to authorities. Officials believe that the suspect sped away from the scene in a Chevy Tahoe with a reported NJ license plate number "M89-JNJ".
In a shooting that occurred on March 29th, gunfire erupted on Stratford Place, suspects reportedly entered a building's and fired shots at a male inside building number 19.
Police say the bullet struck the victim in the leg and caused non-life threatening injuries. Click **[HERE ](https://www.rlsmedia.com/article/developing-newark-nj-man-found-shot-inside-newark-south-ward-building)** for Stratford Place shooting in March.
Residents who watched the victim being taken away by University Hospital EMS questioned whether a consistent police presence that has officers stationed on both ends of the block has seen much progress.
"Police always sit in patrol cars at the intersections of Clinton and Avon avenues, but I am not sure if it means anything once they leave because open-air drug sales and gunfire continues," a senior resident told RLS Media on Monday.
"I thought that once they closed the other building on the corner that things would get a little better, but it really hasn't; at all," the resident said.
There were no arrests immediately reported in either incident.