Unidentified man dies after being left at ER with gunshot wounds. Police searching for answers.
Updated May 01, 2021;
A man died after being dropped off at a Paterson hospital with nine gunshot wounds, authorities said.
The man, whose identity is under investigation, was taken to University Medical Center on Saturday by “individuals in a private vehicle,” according to a press release from the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office.
They left him at the hospital and drove away as staff rushed him to the emergency room. They could not save him and the man was later pronounced dead, the office said.
Authorities are now investigating who the victim was, why the shooting took place and where it occurred.
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An unidentified man with nine gunshot wounds was pronounced dead after someone dropped him off before dawn Saturday at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, authorities said.
Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora didn’t say whether the “individuals” who brought him to the hospital in a private vehicle around 5 a.m. stuck around or had been identified in any way.
They did say in a brief release that the victim was “immediately rushed into the emergency room for treatment where it was determined that he had suffered 9 gunshot wounds” and that “hospital staff” pronounced him dead.
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