Teen Cheerleader Critical After Struck By Hit, Run Vehicle In Newark: Prosecutor, Report
An 18-year-old girl is in critical condition after being struck by a hit and run vehicle in Newark on Sunday, Feb. 4, authorities said.
At 10:15 p.m., the girl was struck on the 500 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens, II said. She was taken to University Hospital, Stephens said.
According to ABC7, the girl is a cheerleader who had just returned to Newark Arts High School following a competition.
The Essex County Prosecutor’s Crime Scene Investigations Bureau is investigating the crash, Stephens said.
Newark Shooting Suspect Busted In Las Vegas
Deidre Moses, a 28-year-old woman who previously lived in Bloomfield, was arrested last month in Las Vegas for shooting a man in Newark in August, authorities said.
At 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 24, police responded to North 4th Street and found a man who had been shot while inside his residence, Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé said.
Before the shooting occurred, the man heard an altercation involving people vandalizing a parked vehicle, Fragé said. The suspects then fired a weapon, striking the home and injuring the man, Fragé said. He was taken to Universit…
