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DEVELOPING NEWARK NJ: Bullet Smashes Through Window of Home in Newark's South Ward

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Police in Newark are in a community in a section of the South Ward investigating a shooting with confirmed property damage at this time.

According to preliminary reports, gunfire rang out in the vicinity of 55 Willoughby Street just before 5:45 p.m. sending police to the scene where officers arrived to find evidence that a shooting occurred but after officers searched the area, no victims were found.

Police say a bullet projectile entered the glass of an apartment at that location but no one inside the home suffered injuries.

The motive for the shooting remains under investigation.

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