Man is shot from car in the Western Slope

Thursday, September 25, 2008
By PAUL KOEPP
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A Jersey City man was shot in the hip Tuesday evening near the corner of Liberty Avenue and Lincoln Street by a gunman in a passing car, police reports said.

The 32-year-old victim saw a dark-colored vehicle drive up to him and heard shots ring out as he was standing at the intersection at 8 p.m., police said.

He began running south on Liberty toward his house and then felt a bullet hit him on the right hip, reports said.

The man told cops he did not get a good look at the car or anyone inside it. He was taken to Jersey City Medical Center for treatment of his injury.

In a similar incident early Tuesday morning, a man heard shots after riding his bike past a dark Dodge Caravan occupied by two men on Central Avenue.