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Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Director Anthony A. Caputo of the New Brunswick Police Department said that at about 4:35 p.m. police responded to Handy Street and Paul Robeson Boulevard and found a man who was shot driving his vehicle.
He was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead, Ciccone and Caputo said.
The victim's name has not been released, nor has a motive for the shooting.
The investigation is active and continuing.
Anyone with information or surveillance footage of the area is asked to call Detective Brandt Gregus of the New Brunswick Police Department at 732-745-5200 or Detective Sean Sullivan of the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office at 732-745-4060
A video report from the shooting scene, where several cars also had collided, was posted on Facebook here by New Brunswick Today.
It marked at least the third daytime shooting in New Brunswick during the past month.
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