1 dead, 1 injured in N.J. shooting, authorities say

One man was killed and another was seriously wounded in a shooting in Newark on Saturday evening, authorities said Tuesday.

Police responded to the 300 block of Bloomfield Avenue at about 11:55 p.m. Saturday, where they found two people struck by gunfire, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said.

Alvis Jottanael Perez-Lirlano, 33, of Elizabeth, was pronounced dead after being transported to University Hospital in Newark, the prosecutor’s office said…

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