TRENTON – A man was shot dead and another man was injured in the West Ward on Thursday, continuing a stretch of violence that has rocked the capital city.
Trenton Police spokesman Lt. Jason Kmiec said the shooting happened on the 900 block of Parkside Avenue around 4:17 p.m.
Police sources said one of the two men wounded succumbed to his injuries after being taken to the hospital, the 11th murder of the year.
Police sources said a vehicle pulled up alongside the victims and fired multiple rounds, leaving one of the men hit in the neck and a second victim suffering from a through-and-through gunshot wound to the armpit.
The condition of the second victim was unknown, Kmiec said.
Police put out an alert for possible suspects, described as two young men, but did not immediately have additional details.
It was at least the seventh shooting, and fourth fatality, since Saturday.
Trenton officials said police planned to concentrate on crime hotspots following a bloody couple days.
Trenton had three murders in a 33-hour span: Robert Smith, 38, was gunned down near Daymond Street on Saturday night; Tayvion Jones, 18, was killed in his kitchen on Oakland Street early Monday morning, and hours later, Antwuan Bowens, 44, was gunned down on Daymond Street.
Smith was one of three people struck in the first shooting on Daymond Street, which happened about 21 hours after a scuffle ensued during a neighborhood cookout around 2 a.m Saturday.
One of those arrested was Bessie Harrell, 31, for allegedly trying to start a fight with a 26-year-old woman in front of cops, police said.
Earlie Harrell, 44, a former Bloods leader, and a 19-year-old Hamilton man were struck in the hail of bullets, fired into a crowd gathered in the same neighborhood Saturday night around 11:40 p.m.
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