Police requested EMS on a rush after finding a seriously injured gunshot victim in an Elizabeth neighborhood overnight.
According to preliminary reports, reports of shots fired sent police to the 600 block of Fulton Street at approximately 11 p.m. where arriving officers found the victim struck by gunfire at that location.
EMS rushed the victim, to University Hospital in Newark where doctors immediately began treating the victim's chest injury according to reports.
Police say the two suspects -male and a female- fled the scene in a dark-colored vehicle immediately after gunfire rang out.
The motive for the shooting remains under investigation.