3 shootings in 2 hours leave 2 wounded in South Jersey town
Updated May 13, 2021;
Authorities don’t know if the incidents are related.
Officers first responded to the 800 block of Buck Street around 9:20 p.m. for a report of shots fired and located 15 spent casings in an alleyway. No injuries were reported from that incident and no witnesses stepped forward, according to Millville police.
The second incident occurred an hour later and less than a half mile away at Church and Green streets, where officers found a 17-year-old Millville male with a gunshot wound to the upper right leg. He was airlifted to Cooper University Hospital and was listed in stable condition Thursday.
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HARRISON - A man struck by a javelin at a college track-and-field meet survived the injury, but not an infection that followed, authorities say.
William A. Scott, 71, died more than three weeks after being injured while working as an official at a competition of Rowan University, a school spokesman said Thursday.
The Oaklyn man, who was injured April 3, died April 26 in the intensive care unit at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, according to an obituary.
Details of the accident were not immediately available.
Scott was an official for track and field in South Jersey for over 30 years, according to Carl Rickershauser, who is the NJSIAA track and field rules interpreter.
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Two people were killed and a third is hospitalized following a weekend shooting in Paulsboro, authorities said.
The incident occurred shortly before 4:30 p.m. Saturday in the area of West Adams and Delaware streets. Paulsboro police responded to find two men dead of gunshot wounds, the Gloucester County Prosecutor’s Office announced.
The victims are identified by authorities as Aaron L. Owens, 28, and Cory R. Bunch, 25, both of Camden.
A third man was found in a vehicle a short distance away suffering from gunshot wounds. He was taken to Cooper University Hospital, Camden, where he remains in critical condition, the prosecutor’s office said.