Crime & Safety

Two Shot and Killed Saturday in Newark

Victims believed to have been targeted.

A man and a woman who officials said may have been deliberately targeted were found shot to death in a car Saturday afternoon, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office announced.

Officials released little information about the shooting, which occurred around 3:40 pm near S. 10th Street and 15th Avenue.

The identities of the victims are being withheld pending notification of next of kin, said Anthony Ambrose, the chief of detectives for the prosecutor’s office.

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The Essex County Prosecutor's Homicide Task force and the Newark police are investigating.


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