$1,500 Reward for Information Leading to Arrest In Somerset County Shooting

Somerset County Detectives are searching for clues in a neighborhood shooting that seriously injured one victim Tuesday afternoon. Police are offering a $1,500 reward for information leading to an arrest. The victim and potential witnesses at the scene are not cooperating with investigators.

Somerville Police were notified by emergency personnel at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in Somerset that they were treating a 21-year-old-male for a gunshot wound to his hip and leg, Somerset County Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano stated.

Somerville Officers responded to the hospital to speak with the patient shortly atfer 1:45 p.m. Tuesday. Detectives discovered that the victim was shot near Second and Center Streets in Somerville and was then transported to the hospital by taxi with non-life threatening injuries.

Minutes after responding to the hospitl, Somerville Police received a 9-1-1 call from a Second Street resident who reported hearing shots being fired in the neighborhood, Soriano Stated. Somerville Police found spent bullet shell casings on the ground at the scene.

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Potential witnesses and the victim, the intended target of the shooting, are not cooperating with Police, Prosecutor Soriano stated. As a result, Police are working without a description of the suspect or information on a possible motive for the crime.

Officers and detectives went house to house to ensure that no additional victims were injured as a result of this event. Two bullets traveled into the structure of two separate residences. No additional victims were reported.

Prosecutor Soriano, Chief of County Detectives Timothy M. Fitzgerald and Somerville Borough Chief of Police Dennis Manning request anyone with information regarding this incident to contact the Somerville Borough Police Department at (908) 725-0331, the Somerset County Prosecutors Office Major Crimes Unit at (908) 231-7100.

The Crime Stoppers of Somerset County, Inc. is offering a reward of $1,500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual responsible for this shooting incident.

Those individuals who want to remain annonymous and collect the reward monies need to call the Somerset County Crime Stoppers’ Tip Line at 1-888-577-TIPS (8477) or submit their information online at www.888577tips.org or www.scpo.net and click on either “Crime Stoppers” or “TIPS HOTLINE”. All Crime Stopper tips will be kept confidential.

Detectives from the Somerville Police Department, the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Squad, and the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Crime Scene Investigations and Forensics Unit responded to conduct the investigation.

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