January 14, 2024
TRENTON (Mercer) – Two more shootings, one Saturday night and another this evening (Sunday, Jan 14, 2024), have been reported, continuing a wave of violence in the capital city that in four days has left one man dead and more than a half-dozen others injured.
Tonight’s crime, reported as a shooting, occurred about 6 p.m. in the area of Greenwood and South Clinton avenues. A Trenton Emergency Medical Service crew quickly arrived, loaded the victim into their ambulance, and reported that they were transporting the person to the trauma center at Capital Health Regional Medical Center even before paramedics and other emergency personnel reached the scene. Details about the extent of the victim’s injuries were not immediately available.
Saturday night’s shooting was reported about 9:35 p.m. The victim, reported to be a female shot in the thigh, was found in the vicinity of the Delaware and Raritan Canal feeder off Calhoun Street. That victim was also rushed by ambulance to the trauma center.
The other recent shootings include:
- Thursday (Jan. 11), about 6:50 p.m., 900 block of South Broad Street, near Chestnut Avenue: One person, suffering from a reported gunshot wound to the abdomen, was rushed to the trauma center. Authorities are still investigating and have not released any detailed information about this incident.
- Friday (Jan. 12), about 5:30 p.m., 800 block of Southard Street: According to information released by Trenton police, 24-year-old Nasir Reed shot himself in the upper left thigh while allegedly struggling with officers. Police said officers had responded to investigate a report of an unruly group of males alleged to be gambling and in possession of a handgun. Reed was among the group and fled when officers approached, police said. After he received medical treatment for his wound, Reed was charged with weapons offenses and resisting arrest, police stated. According to emergency services radio communications, a second gunshot victim was reported during this incident and a second ambulance was called to the scene to transport that person to hospital. Police, however, have not released any details about a second victim.
- Friday (Jan. 12), about 7:55 p.m., 100 block of Frazier Street: An 11-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl were shot as they were sitting in the back seat of their mother’s vehicle, Trenton police confirmed. The children, each suffering from a gunshot wound to a leg, were rushed to the trauma center. The other occupants of the vehicle – the children’s mother, their grandmother, and two siblings – were not injured. Police said they are looking to identify a dark-colored van or sport utility vehicle from which the shots were believed to have been fired.
- Saturday (Jan. 13), about 12:15 a.m., 200 block of North Clinton Avenue: An ambulance was dispatched to Trenton police headquarters to transport a shooting victim to hospital. While it is believed that the shooting did not occur at police headquarters and that the victim instead went there looking for help, specific details are unknown as Trenton police have not released any information about this incident.
- Saturday (Jan. 13), about 12:55 a.m., 1400 block of South Clinton Avenue: One man, reported to have been shot in the face, died as a result of his injuries, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed. Authorities have not yet released the dead man’s name.
All of the above crimes remain under investigation by Trenton police and partner law enforcement agencies, including the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office, the Mercer County Shooting Response Team, and the Mercer County Homicide Task Force.
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