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    Isaac Avilucea - The Trentonian

    Police tape marks the scene of yet another shooting in Trenton Saturday on the 200 block of East Hanover Street.

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    Isaac Avilucea - The Trentonian

    Police respond to a shooting that left one man critically injured Saturday evening.

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    Isaac Avilucea - The Trentonian

    Trenton police closed off the 200 Block of East Hanover Street Saturday night to investigate a shooting.

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Isaac Avilucea
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TRENTON – A man was reportedly in critical condition after being shot Saturday night on the 200 block of East Hanover Street, sources said.

A Trenton Police spokesman could not be reached for further comment.

Officers cordoned off the block near the intersection of North Montgomery and East Hanover streets, next to the Hi-Grade Wine and Liquors store. A police officer escorted a family to their home up the block as onlookers gathered outside the liquor store.

Red and blue lights from a parked police cruiser illuminated the block, as officers appeared to focus on an area up the block.

Sources said a 33-year-old man was taken to Capital Health Regional Medical Center after being shot in the upper torso. He was still clinging to life, reportedly in critical condition as of deadline.

Two men standing outside the liquor store said they called in the shooting to police after hearing at least two shots around 6:50 p.m. They said it sounded as if several people were exchanging gunfire.

“Man, it’s crazy, especially for an old boy like me. I got shot last summer, me and him,” a 75-year-old man, who wished to remain anonymous, said gesturing to his middle-aged friend.

The elderly man, who stood with the help of a cane, said he and his friend were innocent bystanders caught in crossfire on the same block about two years ago, in the summer.

The younger man showed The Trentonian the scar where the bullet pierced his skin.

“It went through my wrist and one of his legs. Lucky it didn’t hit no bone or nothing,” the elderly man said, adding they were drinking beers that summer night when gunfire erupted. “Somebody jumped up pissed off, fired the gun off let them know that, ‘I ain’t playing.'”

The elderly man, originally from Washington D.C., came to Trenton about four decades ago. He said he didn’t believe the police ever identified the shooter who injured him and his friend.

The violence in Trenton is incomparable to the hardened streets of Washington D.C., the elderly man said. But he still says it’s too often for how small New Jersey’s capital city is.

“I’m always the one calling it in,” he said of the shootings on his block.

The man, an avid blues player, said he’s alarmed about how young the shooters are getting in the city.

A 15-year-old was alleged to have taken part in this month’s point-blank execution of Geovahnie Fanfan, 21, inside a Trenton laundromat.

A prosecutor at a detention hearing for pill-pushing grandmother Eudean McMillan, one of the alleged shooters, described the killing as “savage,” according to The Times of Trenton.

The elderly man said he and his wife tried to give the city’s youth a safe haven away from the streets.

“Kids here ain’t into fun. They into chaos,” he said. “And the reason is ’cause you got 20,000 kids when school is on. Ya hear me? You got 20 grand. I walked around one day just countin’ the kids I saw. I said, ‘Man, do you know you got 20,000 kids walkin’ around, in a gang, seven or eight of them, and school’s goin’ on.’ We couldn’t do that. Somebody came and got us. You either goin’ to school or you goin’ to the home. Now you go kids out here, 9, 10 years old, walkin’ around, ‘I ain’t goin’ to school.’ We were made to go to school, get that education.

“And it don’t seem like it’s gettin’ any better because the kids is gettin’ just as crazy as it seems like. I don’t know if it’s the smartphone or what, but they gotta give them somethin’ to do ’cause this is not holdin’ ’em down. School is in now, but school is out, if ya know what I mean. You can’t tell school is in, not around here.”

No suspects or arrests were reported as of deadline.