Police in Newark has launched an investigation into about six separate shots fired incidents that had officers recover about four dozen shell casings, one victim, and property damage around the city.
According to police, shooters spayed several neighborhoods with bullets in every ward except Newark's ironbound section beginning Saturday evening.
**This is how the overnight breakdown:**
Just before 8:30 p.m., University Hospital EMS technicians heard over two dozen rounds of gunfire erupt in the vicinity of their headquarters located at Georgia King Village and Cabinet Street. Police arrived and found evidence that a shooting occurred, but after a search, no victims. A short time later, hospital officials said a male victim entered the emergency department suffering a bully wound. His injuries were not reported as life-threatening.
At approximately 11:30 p.m., residents told RLS Media they heard repeated gunfire in the vicinity of 261 Vassar Avenue. Fast responding Newark South Ward officers arrived and began to canvass the area for victims. Police say bullets struck a vehicle and approximately seven shell casings were recovered. The suspect fled the scene and remain at-large.
According to Newark Police, the third shooting incident of the overnight happened at around midnight when gunmen fired about three rounds on Wicker Court near Martin Luther King Boulevard. Police notified hospitals in the region for potential walk-in gunshot victims. Police reported no arrests.
In shots-fired incident number four, residents at the Oscar Miles housing development told RLS Media they were awakened by loud popping noise in the 50's block of Broome Street shortly before 1:11 a.m. Police arrived and performed a thorough canvass of the area and found about a dozen shell casings. The suspect fled the scene immediately after the shooting. No injuries or arrests reported.
Police in Newark's North Ward responded to reports of shots fired with possible injuries in the area of Branch Brook Park and Montclair Avenue around 1:49 a.m. Upon arrival, units canvassed the scene and did not locate any victims. About nine shell casings were recovered during the investigation. Police say they are investigating what prompted the shooting. No arrested reported.
Police closed the overnight with a shots-fired incident that occurred in the 200 block of Lyons Avenue just before 2:28 a.m. Authorities said shooters arrived in the area and fired about three rounds before fleeing the scene. Police conducted a search of the South Ward community for casualties, but no victims were found.
No arrests were immediately reported in any of the incidents.