Cousins injured in Jersey City shooting, authorities say

Updated 9:38 AM;
Posted 9:36 AM

By Patrick Villanova
The Jersey Journal


A pair of cousins were injured in a shooting Wednesday night in Jersey City's Journal Square, authorities said.

Jersey City police responded to the area of Sip and Summit avenues around 11:30 p.m. and found a 20-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his right hand, city spokeswoman Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione said.

The victim, who was uncooperative with police, was taken to Jersey City Medical Center for treatment for the injury, which did not appear to be life-threatening, Wallace-Scalcione said.

Shortly after the 20-year-old was brought to the hospital, his cousin arrived at JCMC with a graze wound to his left hand, which he suffered in the same incident. The 24-year-old had fled the scene in Journal Square before police got there, Wallace-Scalcione said.

However, when police interviewed the second victim, he gave them a false location for the incident. Police determined the man had also been shot in the buttock in November and was uncooperative with authorities investigating that incident, Wallace-Scalcione added.

Similarly, he fled the scene of the November shooting and later surfaced as a local hospital for treatment, the spokeswoman said.

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... _shooting_authoritie.html

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RLS is only breaking news for the most part so I think when it comes to shootings it's a mix of overheard police scanner conversations and police giving them bits of info. So I can easily see RLS hearing "we found a crime scene over by the old Burger King parking lot" and assuming it is a place still in business.

Someone else has a map of Jersey City shootings so far this year and has been pretty good with adding them to the map before articles get released. When you click on the JSQ shooting icon and then click the address that pops up, his info states the victim was shot in the hand and walked into the Dunkin Donuts near that location. So it's possible the location is correct of the crime scene even if the Burger King isn't still around.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/view ... tcIFJIxpOh1WyCs4BRtB6bMb5

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"Police set up a crime scene at the Burger King Restaurant"

Didn't they rip that one down a while ago? Its an empty lot now.

Feb 8 2018 - 4:51am

Police in Jersey City are on the search for a suspect wanted for a shooting that left a person injured in Jersey City.

Reports of shots fired sent police to the 500 block of Summit Avenue at around 10:30 p.m. where they arrived to find the victim suffering a gunshot wound at that location.

Police set up a crime scene at the Burger King Restaurant where they located evidence according to preliminary reports.

EMS transported the victim to Jersey City Medical Center for treatment.

The motive for the shooting remains under investigation.

https://www.rlsmedia.com/article/suspe ... g-injured-one-jersey-city