Authorities have identified the victim killed Saturday amid a series of shootings in Newark as a 21-year-old city man.
NEWARK -- Authorities have identified the victim killed Saturday amid a series of shootings in Newark as a 21-year-old city man.
Eric Wright sustained multiple gunshot wounds in a 1 p.m. incident near the intersection of Pearson Lane and Doby Place, said Anthony Ambrose, Essex County Prosecutor's Office Chief of Detectives. Wright was transported to University Hospital in Newark, where he was later pronounced dead, he added.
An investigation by the Essex County Prosecutor's Office Homicide Task Force is in its initial stages, Ambrose said. No other information was immediately made available.
Wright's killing occurred during a violent 24-hour span in Newark that saw two others injured in shooting incidents, sources close to the investigations confirmed.
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The first in the series occurred Friday at approximately 6 p.m in the 100 block of Fairmount Avenue, a source said. The male victim, whose name has not yet been released, was found suffering multiple gunshot wounds, the source said. He was later transported to University Hospital in Newark for treatment.
On Saturday afternoon, four hours after the shooting that killed Eric Wright, a male was shot and injured in an incident near Central Avenue and 2nd Street, a source said.
According to the source, the victim, whose name has not been released, sustained a gunshot wound to the abdomen. He was later transported to University Hospital in Newark for treatment, the source said.
Wright's death brings the city's homicide count to 92, according to a count by the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. Authorities recorded 93 homicides in all of 2014.
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