Questions remain after police shoot 2 people in Newark

NEWARK, N.J. — After police shot two people on a city block that has Newark Police Headquarters on one end and another police facility on the other, many questions remain, half a day later.

The double shooting happened at around 10:20 p.m. on Thursday on Hunterdon Street, between Clinton Avenue and West Bigelow Street.

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The Newark Police Dept. Headquarters is at the corner of Clinton Ave. and Hunterdon. It has another facility at the end of the block, at Bigelow and Hunterdon Streets.

“It sounded like firecrackers,” said Carrie Smith, who lives in the middle of the block, as she described the fusillade of bullets. She said that she told her daughter to turn out all of the lights and stay down on the floor, as gunfire rang out…

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