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Jersey City Gunshot Victim Dies

Jersey City

The Hudson County Prosecutor's Office is looking into a double shooting that killed a person in Jersey City Tuesday night. 

According to a preliminary investigation, at approximately 11:10 p.m., gunfire rang out in the area of Wilkinson Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive. 

When police arrived at the scene, they found the unidentified, unconscious and unresponsive victim suffering a bullet wound in the chest at that location. 

The victim was administered CPR at the scene but the 21-year-old man was pronounced dead at Jersey City Medical Center a short time later.

Police say a second person suffered a non-life threatening gunshot wound on their arm. 

The motive for the shooting is under investigation. 

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