Authorities are investigating an afternoon shooting that left a woman suffering non-life threatening injuries, according to officials.
Police responded to the area of Union Street near Martin Luther King Drive just before 3 p.m., for report of a shooting.
Upon arrival, police found a victim - only described as a woman in her 20s or 30s - who had been shot in the buttocks.
She was transported to the Jersey City Medical Center-Barnabas Health for treatment.
No information was immediately available as to the motive for shooting.