PRESS RELEASE
Authorities Investigate Fatal Shooting in East Orange, NJ
Acting Essex
County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray and East Orange Police Chief William
Robinson have announced that authorities are investigating a shooting incident
that occurred late Sunday night (7/5/15)
in East Orange, NJ.
A
total of four males were shot, one fatally. Shortly before 11:30 p.m., East Orange police officers responded to the
200 block of South Clinton Street
on reports of shots fired. Arriving officers located four victims at this
location and all of them were transported to University Hospital
in Newark.
One
victim, who has been identified as Ahmad M. Crudup, age 22, of Maplewood, was pronounced
dead at 11:54 pm, according
to Chief Assistant Prosecutor Thomas S. Fennelly of the Prosecutor’s Homicide
Unit. The other three victims were treated for non-life threatening wounds,
according to Fennelly. The identities of the surviving victims are not being
disclosed at this time for security reasons, according to Fennelly, who added
that the surviving victims are males in their early twenties.
This incident is being investigated
by the Essex County Prosecutor's Major Crimes Task Force, which includes
detectives from the East Orange Police Department. The investigation is ongoing
and active at this time, according to Fennelly.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Task Force detectives at
(877) 847-7432 or (973) 621-4586.
No
further information is available at this time.
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