PLAINFIELD, NJ — A Plainfield teenager was fatally shot early Tuesday morning in the city and is under investigation, acting Union County Prosecutor Grace H. Park announced.
Plainfield Police officers who responded to a report of shots being fired on the 600 block of West Fourth Street found Kassim Hayes, 17 at that location shortly after 4 a.m. on April 4.
Hayes was pronounced dead at the scene a short while later, Park reported.
This matter remains under active joint investigation by the Union County Homicide Task Force, Plainfield Police Division, Union County Sheriff's Office Crime Scene Unit, and Union County Police Department Ballistics Unit.
Anyone with information about this matter is being urged to contact Homicide Task Force Sgt. Johnny Ho at 908-403-8271 or Detective Melissa Plum at 908-418- 2817.
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