Authorities are investigating a fatal Jersey City incident where a man was shot in the neck while driving a car, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez announced.
Shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday, the Jersey City Police Department was notified of a motor vehicle crash in the area of Old Bergen Road and Merritt Street, Suarez said in a statement.
Responding officers located an unresponsive man in the driver’s seat of a vehicle that had crashed into a tree on Merritt Street. The unresponsive man – later identified as Devon Reid, 39, of Elizabeth – was discovered with a gunshot wound to the neck.
Reid was transported by Emergency Medical Services to the Jersey City Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at approximately 7:16 p.m…