Two, Including 10-Year-Old, Killed, Three Injured In Mass Shooting In US’ Newark; Shooter At Large

A Newark police car patrols the corner of a street in Newark, New Jersey. (IMAGE: AFP)

Police have launched a manhunt for the gunman who killed a 10-year-old boy and a 21-year-old woman in the US city of Newark. Heavy gunfire rang out on the 300 block of Chancellor Avenue on Saturday evening, forcing several people to duck for cover.

The bullets also hit three other people. An 11-year-old boy, a 19-year-old man, and a 60-year-old man remained in the hospital in stable condition on Sunday morning, Newark broadcaster WABC said in a report.

Newark’s Democrat Mayor Ras Baraka is urging the shooter to surrender to the police.

“Today was a dark and devastating day in Newark as a small child fell to his death from an apartment window this afternoon and two more innocent souls died in a shooting on Chancellor Avenue,” he said.

Authorities in New Jersey are also investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy who was reported to have fallen from a 20th-story window.

Newark police were called to a high-rise apartment building at 7 a.m. Saturday on the report of a child falling from the window.

The toddler was pronounced dead at the scene, along a public park near Newark Liberty International Airport, the Essex County prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

An investigation was announced by County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens and Newark Public Safety Director Emanuel Miranda.