There is an active investigation underway for a shooting with injuries reported in a Newark neighborhood at this time.
If you are headed out to school or work, we are advising you to avoid the vicinity of Vanderpool Street at Pennsylvania Avenue as police have a crime scene established as they look into a shooting that sent a male to the hospital shortly before 6:30 a.m.
Details are developing, but according to preliminary reports, police responded to reports of shots fired and arrived to find a man struck multiple times at that location. '
EMS rushed the victim to University Hospital in serious condition.
The motive has not been determined.
Avoid the area for the investigation