A man is dead and a woman is injured after a police-involved shooting in Newark, prosecutors say.
Police interrupted a shooting in progress at 18th Avenue and Alexander Street at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, the Essex County prosecutor's office and Newark city officials said. The officers opened fire when the suspects pointed their guns at them.
One man was fatally shot by police and the other was injured, authorities said. It's not clear whose gunfire hit the wounded man. He was taken to University Hospital in Newark, where he's in critical but stable condition.
Neighbors say they heard several gunshots -- at least five or six, according to one woman.
Video obtained by NBC 4 New York shows people ducking for cover as gunshots were fired in the air.
A man named Jade Upchurch said it was his brother Tai who died.
"My brother's too young to die," the distraught Upchurch said, adding Tai's birthday was coming up in a few weeks.
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"I miss Tai, I love Tai. That's my brother, he's gone," he said. "This stuff is messing with me. I'm not gonna sleep, I'm not gonna sleep."
Police were investigating at two scenes Tuesday night, one at 18th and West, and the other at 18th and Alexander, and taped off several blocks. Investigators haven't spelled out the link between the two scenes.
The prosecutor's office is investigating. The state attorney general requires the Essex County prosecutor's office to respond at all police-involved shootings.
