Authorities are investigating a Tuesday evening shooting in Irvington that left a Newark man dead, authorities said.
(File photo).NEWARK -- Authorities are investigating a Tuesday evening shooting in Irvington that left one man dead, and another injured, authorities said.
Terry Riggins, 36, of Newark, was pronounced dead Tuesday by doctors at Beth Israel Medical Center in Newark, said Katherine Carter, spokeswoman for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.
Riggins was fatally shot in the vicinity of Sheridan Street and Paine Avenue at approximately 10:30 p.m., Carter said.
A second victim, a 45-year-old Irvington man, sustained a non-life threatening gunshot wound in the shooting, Carter said. Authorities are withholding the man's name, she added.
An investigation by the Irvington Police Department and the Essex County Prosecutor's Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force is ongoing, Carter said.
Investigators have yet to identify a suspect, and no arrests have been made, Carter said.
Additional details of the shooting were not immediately made available.
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