A mid-afternoon tragedy has struck Newark, New Jersey. Around 2:30 this afternoon shots were fired at an apartment complex in the Essex County town. Newark’s local Southward Patch has the details.
At least six people have been wounded in a midday shooting in a courtyard outside Kemsco Village apartment building at Stone and Crane streets in Newark’s North Ward.
Newark police, along with officers from the Essex County Sheriff’s Department, swarmed the scene, which was cordoned off with police tape.
Officials on scene said six people between the ages of 17 and 27 were injured and had been taken to University Hospital in the city. Newark Detective Eugenio Gonzalez, a police spokesman, said there are no suspects.
According to initial reports, it appeared the gunfire erupted around 1:15 p.m. The condition of those shot was not immediately known.
Residents in the area said they heard between 16 to 20 gunshots. A woman, who declined to give her name, but said she lives in the village, said she heard “a bunch of gunshots.” “But by the time I looked out the window to the courtyard, there was three people lying on the floor with blood,” she said in Spanish. “One seemed he had been shot to the head.”
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SOURCE: [Southward Newark Patch]
UPDATE: Two of the victims are in critical condition, according to two city officials. No motive or suspects have been identified, and the conditions of the victims were not immediately available.
SOURCE: [NJ.com]
