Police in Newark are investigating five separate shootings that left at least one person dead in the city in a 24-hour span.
The most serious of the incidents was a shooting that occurred in the 90' block of Mt. Pleasant Street, a little after 4 a.m., where cops found a male victim laying on the ground shot multiple times at that location.
The victim was rushed to University Hospital where he died a short time later. This is the second homicide in the city in the last 24-hours of this fatal shooting.
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Detectives from the Essex County Prosecutor's Office are handling the investigation.
In another shooting incident, a male victim that was transported to Beth Israel Hospital by private vehicle had hospital officials contact police Friday at around 6:15 p.m.
Police searched the 100 block of Fabyan Place for a crime scene after they learned that the victim was in the area when gunfire rang out.
The victim is recuperating in the hospital and his injuries were not immediately reported as life threatening.
An early Friday morning shooting in the 50's block of Stone Street rushed police to the scene where they found one person injured by gunfire shortly before 10:10 a.m..
EMS transported the victim to University Hospital where their condition has not been released.
The Stone Street shooting is under investigation.
Newark Police responded to Beth Israel Hospital at around 11:30 p.m. after hospital officials advised that a victim who was suffering injury from gunfire had entered the emergency department.
It is not immediately clear where the victim was shot or the extent of his injuries.
Several police units along with NPD 1 helicopter searched the area on 11t Street and 11th Avenue after residents complained of hearing rounds of gunfire in the area.
In the final shooting incident, gunfire rang out in the 60's block of Norwood Street at around 6:50 a.m. where officers from East Orange and Newark arrived to the scene where they found shell casings and blood at that location.
Several minutes later, a male victim drove up in a private vehicle to University Hospital suffering injury from gunfire.
The viicim told hospital officials that he was shot on Norwood shortly before arriving there.
His injuries were not reported as life threatening.
All of the shooting incidents are under investigation.