Authorities are investigating the death of a toddler from Newark as a possible homicide, officials said Sunday.
According to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office, the 2-year-old child was transported from a home on Halstead Street to University Hospital Saturday afternoon and was pronounced dead soon after.
The county's homicide task force is investigating the death, a spokesman from the prosecutor's office said.
The child's identity has not been released and the cause of death will be determined after an autopsy, the spokesman said.
