Officials are urging the suspects involved in the deadly shooting of a 10-year-old boy and a 21-year-old woman in New Jersey over the weekend to turn themselves in for committing the “heinous crime.”
“What you did was cowardly, heartless and unforgivable. You prove nothing but your own weakness,” Essex County Sheriff Amir Jones said during a press conference on Monday. “We are coming, there is no hiding, there is no running. There is no corner of this county that will keep you hidden. Turn yourselves in before we come knocking on your door.”
At approximately 7 p.m. on Saturday, police received reports of multiple shots fired in Newark’s South Ward, officials said. A total of five people were injured in the shooting, with two of them later pronounced dead at a local hospital, officials said.
Two days after a deadly New Jersey shooting killed a 10-year-old boy and a 21-year-old woman, officials are urging for the suspects to turn themselves in.
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The victims were identified as 10-year-old Jordan Garcia and 21-year-old Kiyah Mae Scott, according to New York ABC station WABC.
“To hear the yelling and the wailing of those mothers in the hospital is something that I will never forget,” Newark Public Safety Director Emanuel Miranda said on Monday.
An 11-year-old boy, who is Garcia’s brother, was also injured in the shooting, but is in stable condition, officials said.
The two others injured in the shooting, a 60-year-old and a 19-year-old, remain in the hospital, with the 19-year-old in critical condition, officials said.
