Authorities have identified the victim in an overnight fatal shooting on Stuyvesant Avenue as a 21-year-old Newark man.
IRVINGTON -- Authorities have identified the victim in an overnight fatal shooting on Stuyvesant Avenue as a 21-year-old Newark man.
Investigators arriving at the scene Thursday night found Samyr Jules suffering an apparent gunshot wound, Essex County Prosecutor's Office spokeswoman Katherine Carter.
Jules was later transported to University Hospital in Newark, where he was pronounced dead just after 9 p.m., Carter said. Additional details of the shooting were not immediately made available.
No arrests have been made in connection to the killing. An investigation by the Essex County Prosecutor's Office Homicide Task Force is ongoing, Carter said.
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The fatal shooting is the second on Stuyvesant Avenue in less than two weeks.
Ashiwin Patel, a 57-year-old gas station clerk, was shot and killed during an Oct. 26 robbery at a Getty Gas Station located in the 1000 block of Stuyvesant Avenue, authorities said.
The Essex County Sheriff's Office on Thursday issued a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in connection to Patel's death.
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