A shooting that killed one and injured another late last night in the city's West Ward has police investigating this morning.
Police rushed to the scene of shots fired that rang out in the 300 block of Sanford Avenue shortly before midnight where they arrived to find two people suffering injury from gunfire.
EMS transported both victims to University Hospital where one of the victims suffered a gunshot to the leg.
The other victim was found with a gunshot wound to the head. The Essex County Prosecutor's Office has confirmed this as a fatality.
The Newark Police Department are investigating the shootings.
UPDATE: 7:52 a.m.