A man was struck and killed near Mulberry and Market streets in Newark.
NEWARK -- A 24-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with a hit-and-run that claimed the life of a Jersey City man April 9, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray and Acting Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose announced Friday.
Mahmoud M. Baza, 31, was crossing Mulberry Street at Market Stre
Shawniece Strothers (Essex County Prosecutor's Office) et around 6:40 a.m. when he was hit. The driver fled the scene and abandoned the vehicle a few blocks away, authorities said.
The prosecutor's Major Crimes Task Force, which includes Newark detectives, arrested Shawniece Strothers of Newark Thursday following an investigation, Chief Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Fennelly said Friday. Strothers, who was charged with aggravated manslaughter and death by auto, was being held at the Essex County Jail on $350,000 bail.
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