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Deadly Shooting Rattles NJ Community After Schoolchildren Find Bleeding Victim Deadly Shooting Rattles NJ Community After Schoolchildren Find Bleeding Victim
Deadly Shooting Rattles NJ Community After Schoolchildren Find Bleeding Victim Children walking home from school in one Essex County community found a shooting victim bleeding on the sidewalk Monday afternoon -- leaving parents angered, saddened and desperate to slow local crime. The 20-year-old man was shot in the head outside of the Central Avenue fire station around 3 p.m. in Orange, witnesses said.  The victim was identified as Siam Neblett, according to RLS Media. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. Orange Schools Superintendent Gerald Fitzhugh, several school principals and police rushed to the scene. Resident and business owner Quantavia Hilbert…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Essex County Prosecutor's Office Probes Death Of 3-Year-Old Boy Essex County Prosecutor's Office Probes Death Of 3-Year-Old Boy
Essex County Prosecutor's Office Probes Death Of 3-Year-Old Boy The Essex County Prosecutor's Office is investigating the death of a 3-year-old boy. First responders found the child unconscious inside of an apartment at 395 Union Ave., in Irvington around 3:30 p.m. last Thursday, RLS Media reports. Have photos of the active scene? Email clevine@dailyvoice.com Neighbors told the outlet they watched helplessly as EMS performed CPR on the boy's lifeless body. Law enforcement agents then took a man believed to be the boy's father into a vehicle belonging to the prosecutor's office around 9 p.m., after hours of investigating, authorities said. Irvington T…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Man Burns Face After Trying To Light Cigarette Sparking Oxygen Tank Fire Man Burns Face After Trying To Light Cigarette Sparking Oxygen Tank Fire
Man Burns Face After Trying To Light Cigarette Sparking Oxygen Tank Fire A Newark man was taken to the hospital with burns after an apparent oxygen tank fire, authorities said. Firefighters responded to the 60s block of Mount Pleasant Avenue on a call of an oxygen tank rupture around 8:05 a.m. Saturday, Newark Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose. While there was no fire, the man had burns on his face and was subsequently taken to Saint Barnabas Medical Center, according to Ambrose and RLS Media. The man had reportedly been trying to light a cigarette while oxygen was being administered, which started a fire, RLS Media says.

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by Cecilia Levine