Authorities today have identified the 17-year-old teen who died after being shot in the head Tuesday afternoon.
According to Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez, Gene Rubino, police officers were in the area of Fulton Avenue near Martin Luther King Drive around 5 p.m., when they spotted a group of people moving a wounded male into a car.
Despite officers orders to stop the vehicle continued until approximately four blocks from Sacred Heart Church on Martin Luther King Drive.
The victim, later identified as Rondell J. Rush, 17, of Jersey City, was transported to Jersey City Medical Center-Barnabas Health where he was pronounced dead Wednesday afternoon.
The shooting remains under investigation.