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Armed Suspect Shoots, Pistol Whips Two Victims in Newark

Newark

Newark Police are looking into the motive behind an aggravated assault shooting that occurred in a section of the city Wednesday afternoon. 

Public Safety Director Brian O’Hara said, just this afternoon, police responded to calls of a shooting in the 100 block of South 7th Street and in the area of 11th Avenue and South 8th Street.

Upon arrival, officers located one victim with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound in his leg at that location. 

Police said a second victim, who was not shot, was located with a non-life-threatening injury to his face after the gunman attacked him with the gun. 

The assailant ran from the scene and remains at large. 

These incidents remain under investigation.

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