A 13-year-old girl died after a pickup truck hit her while she was riding a scooter in Bordentown Township, and Rutgers police are investigating three separate assaults near the New Brunswick campus.
Below are the headlines you may have missed from the weekend in New Jersey:
A 13-year-old girl died after a pickup truck hit her while she was riding a scooter near Route 130 and Route 662 in Bordentown just before 2:30 p.m. on Friday. The girl she was riding with was not hurt. Police took the driver in for questioning, and no charges had been reported.
Read More Here: 13-Year-Old Girl Dies After Being Hit By Pickup Truck In NJ: Officials
Rutgers police are investigating two aggravated assaults that happened between midnight and 1:30 a.m. Nov. 1 near the College Avenue Campus, NJ.com reported. In the first, a man walking on Stone Street got into an argument with a group of men, then was punched and hit with an edged object. In the second, a man was punched at a Chi Phi fraternity event on College Avenue. Both victims are affiliated with Rutgers and were treated for injuries that were not life-threatening. No arrests had been announced.
Rutgers police are investigating a report that a man made repeated unwanted sexual contact with a woman around 2:30 a.m. Oct. 31. It happened on a crowded bus running between the College Avenue and Livingston campuses. Police are looking for a white man between 17 and 23 years old with short black hair, facial hair and a scar above his left eye. Read more: Student Groped On Crowded Rutgers Bus
Officers breaking up a large crowd on North Broad Street just after 1 a.m. Nov. 1 heard two shots after a fight broke out. They found a man with a gunshot wound to his thigh and a gun next to him. Police said the wound appears to be self-inflicted. Read more: Man Shoots Self In Leg, Hospitalized In Union County, Police Say
Newark police freed an actor who was accidentally locked inside a real holding cell during a film shoot around 2:30 p.m. Saturday, NJ.com reported. The building at 31 Green St. used to be the Newark police jail block and is now a municipal courthouse and film location. No one was hurt. Officials haven't said which production was filming.
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