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A Jersey City man was shot and killed in Newark's South Ward Sunday morning, according to authorities. (Star-Ledger file photo) NEWARK – Authorities have identified a man shot and killed in the city's South Ward Sunday morning.
Rickey Elliott, 52, whose last known address was in Jersey City, was pronounced dead at University Hospital around 11:16 a.m. Sunday, according to Thomas S. Fennelly, an assistant prosecutor with the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.
He had been rushed to the hospital earlier that morning after being shot on Cypress Street.
No arrests have been made in the slaying, and authorities have released no information on any potential motive or suspects.
An investigation by the prosecutor's office's Major Crimes and Homicide Task Force remains active.
Elliott was one of two men killed by shootings in Newark over the weekend, raising the city's homicide total for the year to 68.
Newark is a small city and this kind of stuff is bound to happen all the time. I have worked in what has now become a predominantly Portuguese section since the early 1970's. It's not so bad down there but I am never in the city at night. Yeah they are putting up new buildings and renovating some others but it isn't any place that I would live with a family and school age children. The gang population is growing. You wanna be a guinea pig and move your wife and kids into this cesspool be my guest.
Newark is a small city and this kind of stuff is bound to happen all the time. I have worked in what has now become a predominantly Portuguese section since the early 1970's. It's not so bad down there but I am never in the city at night. Yeah they are putting up new buildings and renovating some others but it isn't any place that I would live with a family and school age children. The gang population is growing. You wanna be a guinea pig and move your wife and kids into this cesspool be my guest.
So you own Lancers Bar? I'd say businesses like your feed into the problem. You come here to make your $$ and run away. You care less about the community. What positive influence have you had here?
Because this is a thread about Newark, 68 murders already and counting. It's like Iraq there.
Where were you people in the 80s/early 90s when the murder/crime rate was much higher?
If it's Iraq then what the hell do you call St. Louis, Milwaukee and Baltimore?
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