Jersey City Shooting Leaves 2 Dead, 4 Injured

JERSEY CITY, NJ — A gruesome shooting on Friday night that left two people dead and four people injured is propelling the conversation about increased gun violence in Jersey City.

Just before 11 p.m. on Friday, six people were shot inside the car they were sitting in on Crescent Avenue and Brinkerhoff Street. All the victims are Jersey City residents.

The Hudson County Prosecutor's Office identified the two people who were killed as Randolph Black Jr., 25 and Jason Crutcher, 26. Four others were injured in the shooting, a 26-year-old man was found near 55 Crescent Avenue with gunshot wounds and a 20-year-old woman was found inside a business on Monticello Avenue with gunshot wounds, the HCPO statement said. A 35-year-old and a 25-year-old were also treated for gunshot wounds.

Mayor Steven Fulop released a statement on Facebook calling the violence "unacceptable" and noting that gun violence and shooting have increased in the city and violence is often due to a lack of opportunity.

"The last two months have been challenging for us and I don’t want to not acknowledge it as we are in a fragile place with regards to an increase in gun violence. As a city, we are committing more and more resources to get ahead of it but acknowledging the issue is important and not pretending like it doesn’t exist. We won’t let the progress we have made slip backwards," the post reads.

The homicides will be the 11th and 12th in the city this year and the fifth this month, according to the Jersey Journal.

"We are focused and working with partners in the community to break this cycle and will be investing more and more resources on the social services front to help here," Fulop's statement reads.

No arrests have been made at this time. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Office of the Hudson County Prosecutor at 201-915-1345 or to leave an anonymous tip on the Hudson County Prosecutor’s official website at: http://www.hudsoncountyprosecutorsofficenj.org/homicide-tip/.