By The Alternative Press Staff
7/14/2009
NEWARK — A patrolling police officer captured a 21-year-old city resident minutes after he had fired his gun near the busy downtown area yesterday, police said.
NEWARK — A spray of gunfire left an unidentified man and a 7-year-old girl injured this morning in the city's Central Ward, police said tonight.
NEWARK — Providing the most detailed account yet of the night four college-aged friends were shot execution-style in a Newark schoolyard, one of the accused killers pleaded guilty Friday to reduced charges in exchange for his testimony against another defendant whose murder trial is just days away.
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NEWARK — Authorities now say a 32-year-old ex-convict charged with strangling his co-worker in her car last month in Newark was a friend of the married mother of two, though a motive for the killing remains unclear.
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NEWARK — A 34-year-old woman pleaded not guilty to homicide charges today for allegedly administering a silicone injection into the penis of a 22-year-old man, who later died.
NEWARK— A police officer who happened upon a shooting while off-duty in a Newark West Ward neighborhood today fired gunshots at the gunman, police said.
When shots rang out about 4 p.m. near Mount Vernon Place and Eastern Parkway, the officer went to investigate and found a wounded person on the ground, said Sgt. Ron Glover, a city police spokesman.
NEWARK — A violent 48 hours in Newark left several people hospitalized during a string of shootings, stabbings and carjackings in the state’s largest city.
PATERSON — The man accused of killing an off-duty Newark detective earlier this week outside a Paterson nightclub was arrested near Philadelphia this morning with his 19-year-old girlfriend, authorities said.
NEWARK — Detectives from the Essex County Sheriff’s Office executing a search warrant arrested a 34-year-old man caught trying to hide a plastic bag containing hundreds of heroin packets, authorities said.