NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force is investigating the fatal shooting of a teenager in Newark on June 10, according to a June 11 press release from the ECPO. At approximately noon on Thursday, June 10, Newark police officers were dispatched to the 100 block of Seymour Avenue on […]
MAPLEWOOD, NJ — A Columbia High School student died following a shooting on June 6 at Underhill Field and another was injured, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office on June 7. Moussa Fofana, 18, a CHS junior and star soccer player, was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:24 p.m., after Maplewood Police Department […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, is investigating a fatal shooting that occurred June 5 in Newark, according to a June 6 press release from the ECPO. At approximately 4:24 a.m. on Saturday, June 5, Newark police officers were dispatched to […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, is investigating a fatal stabbing in Newark, according to a June 6 press release from the ECPO. At approximately 2:35 a.m. on June 5, Newark police officers responded to reports of a stabbing on the […]
NUTLEY, NJ — Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura’s Crime Stoppers Program is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and the conviction of the hit-and-run driver who fatally struck Roseann Ratz, 75, of Lyndhurst, according to a June 3 press release. On Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, Ratz and a […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, is investigating the fatal shooting of Tyzier White, 23, of Irvington, according to a June 1 press release from the ECPO. On Monday, June 1, White was shot in the area of Campbell Street and […]
IRVINGTON, NJ — Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II announced June 3 that the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force is seeking the public’s assistance in identifying a person of interest in connection with the death of Michael Williams, 35, of Irvington. On May 15, Williams was found unresponsive at Springfield […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, has identified the man stabbed on Friday, May 21, in the predawn hours, as Jorge Martinez, 55, according to a May 25 press release. Martinez was stabbed in his apartment on Parker Street. A 14-year-old […]
ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced May 17 that a suspended detective in the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office was indicted that same day for installing a GPS tracking device on a civilian’s vehicle without obtaining the required warrant from a judge or departmental authorization. Timothy Kealy, 27, of Bloomfield, was indicted […]
NEWARK, NJ — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, is investigating the fatal shooting of Shaquan Breedlove, 31, of Newark, according to a May 20 press release from the ECPO. At approximately 11:49 p.m. on Tuesday, May 18, Breedlove was fatally shot on the […]