An unidentified man was killed after shots rang out on the 400 block of South 11th Street Monday afternoon
NEWARK - A man was shot to death in the West Ward Monday afternoon - the fifth homicide to rock the city in four days.
Essex County Prosecutor's Office spokeswoman Katherine Carter confirmed that the unidentified man died after being wounded on the 400 block of South 11th Street just before 4 p.m.
She said the investigation by the prosecutor's office's Major Crimes and Homicide Task Force was in its very early stages and no other details were available.
The shooting death marked the city's second on Monday - after NJIT student Joseph Micalizzi was killed in an apparent burglary gone awry at his fraternity house on Martin Luther King Boulevard just after 3 a.m.
The spree of violence began Friday morning, when 20-year-old Tyree Scott was killed on North Munn Avenue. A pair of death followed over the weekend, killing 42-year-old George Allen III of Montclair and 26-year-old Taquan Boston of Newark.
No arrests have been announced in any of the cases.
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