At least 9 New Jerseyans died of shootings during the last week – NJ TODAY
A 21-year-old New Jersey man was fatally shot in Camden’s Fairview section early Saturday. Camden County Police officers responding to a ShotSpotter activation around 1 a.m. on May 22, found Isaiah Taylor, suffering gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead at an area hospital.
A woman was killed and four others wounded shortly after midnight on May 22 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. An argument in the parking lot had escalated and gun shots struck people inside their apartments.
After two men opened fire on each other during an argument in the early morning hours on May 22. The incident, near a downtown nightclub in Minneapolis, Minnesota, killed 2 and injured 8 others.
At about 3:45 p.m., on May 21 police responded to reports of shots fired near 24 Blum Street, in Newark, New Jersey, where officers found Charles Pridgen Jr, 28, suffering bullet wounds in his head after a gunman fired at him at point-blank range, striking him multiple times. They rushed the victim in their cruiser to University Hospital for treatment but he died.
Essex County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Fennelly said that was one of four unrelated fatal shootings in the city this week. No arrests have been made in any of the Newark, New Jersey, shootings.
Newark resident Akram Brown, 42, was shot to death Wednesday night on Mount Vernon Place. Brown, a business owner, was reportedly holding a 2-year-old child, and he died shielding the toddler from rapid gunfire. One other person suffered non-fatal injuries in the shooting.
Shaquan Breedlove, 31, was fatally shot at 11:49 p.m. on the 200 block of Seymour Avenue on Tuesday. Halee A. Wing, a 42-year-old from Millstone, was shot to death and one person was wounded on the 100 block of Pacific Street in another shooting about four hours earlier.
One man was killed in an afternoon shooting, May 21 in Albany, New York. Police eventually found five other gunshot victims wounded in local hospitals.
Two people were killed and four injured in a late night shooting on May 21 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Police say a pair of gunmen walked up and began shooting at six people who were sitting in a car.
Four people were wounded after a fight escalated into a shooting on May 20, in Evansville, Indiana.
Katherine Montenegro, 23, of Trenton, New Jersey, was killed at 1:50 a.m. on Tuesday in a shooting in the parking lot at the 7-Eleven store on Lalor Street in Hamilton.
Seven people were shot on a party bus celebrating a May 18 birthday, two fatally. Police in Oakland, California, have offered a $40,000 reward for information about the suspect(s).
A pregnant bystander was shot and killed on May 18, when a fight led to gunfire on a public street in Hemet, California. Police there said four others were wounded.
Four people were shot on Swan Island in Portland, Oregon, where the May 17 incident is being described by law enforcement as gang-related.
On May 16 at around 12:40 a.m. police responded to several reports of shots fired at near 595 15th Avenue, in Newark, New Jersey, where they found a mortally wounded Jarrod Lawson, 16. Later, Rutgers Police and Essex County Sheriff’s Officers were called to University Hospital, where the victim’s family and friends arrived in large numbers before he was pronounced dead.
Police officers responding to calls about a May 16 fight and shooting, found one man dead and three others wounded at a nightclub in Cincinnati, Ohio.
A federal prosecutor was one of two innocent bystanders struck by stray bullets outside a Brooklyn restaurant Friday night, according to the New York City Police (NYPD).
When shots rung out at about 9 p.m. near Muse, a Thai eatery, Mollie Bracewell, 34, a Harvard University grad who works in the US Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, was dining outside and she was hit
Bracewell heard four shots and felt pain in her left eye and was taken to Kings County Hospital where an X-Ray found there was a bullet fragment lodged under her eye, police sources said. Benjamin Bustamante, a 31-year-old man who was walking by the area was shot in the foot and taken to Methodist Hospital, said police.
The two victims were unintended targets of the gunmen, who according to police were two rival gangs vying for control of the area.
A total of at least 96 New Jersey residents have died of murder, accidental, or defensive gun use since January 1, 2021, while 302 people in the Garden State have been injured by firearms in that time. Among them, three teenagers were killed, 14 others were injured and six children under the age of 12 were also hurt by guns.
Nationally, through May 22, 2021, America has seen 16,974 gun related deaths, among them 7,536 murder, accidental, or defensive gun use and 9,438 suicides.
President Joe Biden pledged to do everything in his power to counteract the rash of gun violence, but he also told Congress that he wants to sign legislation overhauling controversial policing practices by May 25.
The White House acknowledged on Friday that lawmakers are unlikely to pass that legislation by Biden’s deadline, which is the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder by a White police officer in Minneapolis.
New Jersey Assemblyman Jamel Holley, who led the fight to reduce the permitted size of ammunition magazines, make it easier to seize guns from those deemed a threat to themselves or others, and allow a firearm to be removed from the scene of a domestic violence incident, reiterated his commitment to making progress by saying, “We must do more to reduce gun violence.”
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