Victim Checks Into Livingston Hospital After Being Shot In Newark: Prosecutor

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — Authorities are investigating a quadruple shooting that claimed an Essex County woman's life and injured three others in Newark on Monday.

Newark police officers responded to a report of a shooting on the 700 block of South 19th Street around 5:45 p.m., finding two males and a female suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. Emergency responders transported all three victims to University Hospital, where the female was pronounced dead a short time after arrival, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office stated.

Prosecutors later identified the deceased woman as Shirlena Coke, 22, of Bloomfield.

A fourth victim – a male – later admitted himself to St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston with a gunshot wound. Police determined that this victim was also shot on South 19th Street, prosecutors said.

All three men were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, prosecutors said.

The identities of the male victims are being withheld for “security reasons,” prosecutors said.

The Essex County Prosecutor's Major Crimes Task Force, which includes detectives from the Newark Police Department, is conducting an investigation. Anyone with information about the incident can call the Prosecutor's Tips Line at (877) 847-7432.

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