There is a homicide investigation underway in a neighborhood in Newark's North Ward at this time.
Detectives focused their attention in the rear of a house in the 40's block of North 3rd Street at around 3 p.m. after police received reports of an injured person.
According to a spokesperson for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office, a preliminary investigation had a female victim rushed to University Hospital for an unspecified critical injury where she died a short time later.
The cause and/or manner of death is under investigation and in its early stages at this time the spokesperson said.
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