32-year-old man fatally shot in N.J. city, police say
Updated Apr 27, 2021;
A 32-year-old man was fatally shot Monday in Elizabeth, according to a joint statement from the Elizabeth Police Department and the Union County Prosecutor’s Office.
The agencies were investigating the shooting Tuesday. No arrests were made and no suspects were named as of 5 p.m., authorities said.
Officers were called to the intersection of Second and Bond streets in the city’s Elizabethport section early Monday afternoon and found Elizabeth resident Antwoine Thompson shot, police said.
Thompson was rushed to Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, where he was pronounced dead shortly before 3 p.m., the office said.
April 27, 2021 at 6:17 PM
ELIZABETH, NJ - A fatal shooting that took place in Elizabeth on Monday is under active investigation, acting Union County Prosecutor Lyndsay V. Ruotolo and Elizabeth Police Chief Giacomo Sacca and Police Director Earl Graves jointly announced Tuesday.
The victim has been identified as 32-year-old Antwoine Thompson.
Members of the Elizabeth Police Department responding to the intersection of Second and Bond streets in the city’s Elizabethport section early Monday afternoon found Thompson at that location, having sustained serious injury, according to the preliminary investigation. Thompson was rushed to Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, where he was pronounced dead shortly before 3 p.m.