A 19-year-old city man has been identified as the victim in an overnight fatal shooting in Newark, authorities said Saturday.
NEWARK --A 19-year-old city man has been identified as the victim in an overnight fatal shooting in Newark, authorities said Saturday.
City police discovered Darnell D. Smith wounded from an apparent gunshot at a residence on the 200 block of South 6th Street, said Essex County Prosecutor's Office spokeswoman Katherine Carter.
Smith was later transported to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:50 a.m., Carter said.
Authorities have not yet identified a suspect or motive in the killing, and no arrests have been made, Carter said. An investigation into the shooting by the county's homicide task force is ongoing, she added.
The killing brings the city's 2015 homicide total to 81. City authorities recorded 93 homicides during all of 2014.
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