The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office has taken the lead in a shooting that killed a man jn Newark’s South Ward overnight.
Police responded to reports of shots fired in the 20’s block of Ridgewood Avenue just before 11:45 p.m.
When officers arrived, they found Mr. Wayne Jones, 41, barely alive after suffering multiple gunshot wounds.
He was rushed to Univeristy Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead around 3:12 a.m.
Police canvassed the scene and found a second person suffering a single bullet wound who is expected to survive.
The motive for the shooting is under investigation and no arrests have been reported.