Your breaking news is a homicide investigation that's underway in Newark's North Ward at this time.
Residents are telling RLS Metro that sometime before 7 am, detectives from the Essex County Prosecutor's Office arrived on Sylvan Avenue- block or so- from Broadway where a female victim suffered a stab injury that ultimately resulted in her fatality.
Residents said that the suspect fled the scene after the crime.
Sylvan is a dead end street and is taped off Broadway.
Investigators are focusing on a house in the rear of the block.
It is not known if there are any other injuries or if this was domestic in nature.
There is not a lot of details on this incident right now and information is pending from the Essex Prosecutor's office.
Developing.