15-Year Old Boy Fatally Shot Overnight in Jersey City

THIS STORY CONTAINS NEW INFORMATION                                                                                                                                                                                             The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office tweeted around midnight that its Homicide Unit and the Jersey City Police Department were responding to the fatal shooting of a man on Myrtle Avenue.

The Prosecutor’s Office has now released additional information, and the victim is a teenage boy.  According to Prosecutor Esther Suarez, shortly after 8:20 p.m. last night, the Jersey City Police Department responded to the area of 112 Myrtle Avenue on a report of shots fired. The responding officers found a male victim outside that location with an apparent gunshot wound to the torso.