NEWARK — Detectives were investigating a homicide on Norwood Street in Newark’s West Ward Thursday morning, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed.
A prosecutor’s office spokeswoman said more information would be released later in the day.
City police and detectives with the prosecutor’s office were working at the crime scene around noon Thursday. Officials from the state Regional Medical Examiner’s Office also arrived on the block.
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Thursday’s killing was Newark’s fifth homicide of the year compared to 12 murders through Jan. 29 last year, according to police records.
On Wednesday night, a man was shot to death near Bloomfield Avenue and Garside Street in the city’s North Ward.
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