Police in Newark are investigating a carjacking that turned into an assault sending a man to the hospital overnight.
Officers were called to an address on North 12th Street at around 12:15 a.m. on reports of a carjacking in progress.
Arriving units located an injured man who reported being approached by three black males who were wearing dark clothing when they began to attack him, then took keys to his vehicle. The victim was transported to University Hospital suffering non-life threatening injuries.
The suspects made off with the victim's grey 2015 Ford Focus.
The vehicle has a reported NJ partial plate of "GVM"