1 dead, 5 wounded in second mass shooting in Trenton in three days
The most-recent violence occurred about a half mile from the site where another shooting left 10 people wounded early Saturday.
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A Trenton man was killed and five other people were wounded late Monday in the second mass shooting in New Jersey’s state capital in three days, police said.
Early Saturday, 10 people were hurt, two critically, in Trenton when two men fired about 30 shots from a car outside a bar on Brunswick Avenue, police said.
The latest shooting occurred about 11:30 p.m. Monday on Walnut Street, about a mile from Saturday’s crime scene. Five men and a woman were struck by gunfire in the attack.
One man, Unique Anderson, 18, of Trenton, suffered wounds to his head, shoulder, and forearm and was taken to Health Regional Medical Center, where he died a short time later, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement.
The conditions of the other victims were not immediately released. The prosecutors office said they were a 20-year-old woman, a 19-year-old man and 22-year-old man, all from Trenton; a 20-year-old man from Edgewater Park; and an 18-year-old man from Hamilton.
The prosecutor’s office said the two shootings do not appear to be related. No arrests have been reported in either case.
The two shootings came almost a year after a gun battle erupted at a 24-hour arts and music festival in Trenton, killing a suspected gunman and injuring nearly two dozen people. Authorities have said the June 17 shooting stemmed from a neighborhood gang dispute. At least two men have been charged in the violence.