Crime & Safety

New Brunswick Man Shot and Killed Monday on Hale Street

No arrests have yet been made, according to the Prosecutor's Office.

A New Brunswick man was shot was killed Monday night on Hale Street, according to the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office.

According to a press release from the Prosecutor's Office, Joshua Negron, 24, was found around 11:15 p.m. Monday with multiple gunshot wounds after officers responded to the sound of gunfire near the corner of Hale Street and Remsen Avenue.

According to the release, Negron appears to have been targeted by a shooter as he was among a group of people at the site.

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He was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:02 a.m. Tuesday.

No arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing.

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Anyone with information is asked to call Det. Ronoldy Martinez of the New Brunswick Police Department at (732) 745-5217, or Investigator Adrian Villegas of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at (732) 745-4428.


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