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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — One Newark, New Jersey, police officer was
killed and another was wounded in a shooting Friday evening,
authorities said.
The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed in an email to
The Associated Press that two Newark police officers were shot
around 6:37 p.m. in the area of Broadway and Carteret.
The officers were taken to University Hospital in Newark and one
was critically injured, the office said, noting the shooting
remains under investigation.
They officers were shot in the line of duty, Robert W. Fox, the
president of the Fraternal Order of Police-New Jersey State
Lodge, said in a statement posted on Facebook.
"One Officer has made the ultimate sacrifice, and the other is
receiving treatment for their wounds at the time of this
release," the statement said.
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