January 12, 2024
Update from the Trenton Police Department:
TRENTON, NJ (MERCER)–Trenton Police Department, Detective Lieutenant Brian Jones told MidJersey.news that at 7:54 p.m. Trenton Police received a call for a juvenile shot on the 100 Block of Frazier Street. Officers arrived on scene and located two victims, and eleven-year-old male and a sixteen-year-old female, who were sitting in the backseat on their mother’s vehicle. The vehicle was occupied by the victim’s mother, grandmother, and two other siblings. The two juvenile victims were transported to Capital Health Regional Medical Center by Trenton Emergency Medical Services. Both victims were struck one time in their lower leg. Their injuries are non-life threatening. Preliminary investigation revealed that after the juveniles got into the backseat of their vehicle, a dark colored van or sport utility vehicle pulled alongside the victim’s vehicle and fired at the victim’s vehicle before fleeing on Frazier Street towards Prospect Street. The Mercer County Shooting Response Team is investigating this incident.
Original MidJersey.news story below:
TRENTON (Mercer) – Two children were reportedly shot this evening (Friday, Jan. 12, 2024), just a little over two hours after two other people were wounded by gunfire in the city.
This latest incidence of violence was reported about 7:55 p.m. in the 100 block of Frazier Street. City police, EMS personnel and firefighters responded and located two juveniles – one initially reported to be about 16, and the other said to be about 11 – suffering from what were described as gunshot wounds to their “lower extremities.”
Both pediatric victims were said to be “conscious and alert” and were quickly taken by ambulance to the trauma center at Capital Health Regional Medical Center.
Earlier this evening, around 5:45 p.m., two people were found shot in the area of the 900 block of Southard Street, which is about a mile away from Frazier Street. And last night (Thursday, Jan. 11) around 6:50 p.m. a person was found shot in the area of the 900 block of South Broad Street.
This is a breaking news report, based on emergency services radio transmissions. All three incidents are under investigation by law enforcement officials. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are released by authorities.
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