Update: Reward Offered In Case Of PNC Bank Arts Center Shooting

A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of PNC Bank Arts Center shooter, state police said.

The shooter who wounded two people at the PNC Bank Arts Center is believed to have left the area, and there is no threat to Holmdel, according to a message from Holmdel Mayor Eric Hinds, posted on the township’s website Tuesday afternoon.

“As a precaution, over 50 Officers checked the entire area, assisted by helicopters and K-9’s, and found no threats within Holmdel, and it is believed that the suspect involved left the area,’’ he said in the post.

In a 4:30 p.m. update from State Police on Tuesday, they said they were continuing to work with the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, trying to identify the shooter.

Two Neptune men, ages 23 and 24, were each struck multiple times in the parking lot after the concert, state police said.

Both men were airlifted to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, where they remained in critical, but stable condition, police said.

State Police Tuesday morning said the search was ongoing for the lone shooter. The men were shot in parking lot #4 of PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel Monday night.

Police are asking for help from anyone who may have information or who witnessed the shooting around 11:15 p.m. Monday.

On Monday night, police said they were searching for the shooter in a wooded area.

WABC News said State Police were using K9 units in their search.

Omayma Bougdour, 18, told the New York Daily News that she heard gunshots while walking to her car and that the shooting happened “over an argument.”

Mike Lefanto, who was at the concert with his teen daughter, told that newspaper the two shooting victims were talking to a woman in the lot “talking about her body,’’ when out of nowhere a man approached and fired about seven shots.

J. Cole was performing at the venue Monday night as part of his Forest Hills Drive Tour.

Anyone with information is asked to call State Police detectives at (732) 441-4550.

Monmouth County Crime Stoppers offers rewards to tipsters who provide information leading to the arrest and conviction of defendants in some cases. Tipsters may remain anonymous.

Tipsters can also call Monmouth County Crime Stoppers, 800-671-4400 or text MONMOUTH + tip to 274637 (CRIMES.)

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