2 Newark Police Officers Shot, With One Critically Injured

One police officer was killed and a second was injured in a shooting in Newark on Friday night, a police officers’ union said in a statement.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said the shooting had taken place at around 6:30 p.m. near the intersection of Broadway and Carteret Street, where an elementary school and a Lutheran church face each other across a busy commercial street.

The prosecutor’s office said the two police officers had been taken to University Hospital. Neither officer has been publicly identified. The authorities have not provided information about who shot them or the circumstances surrounding the shooting.

The union, the New Jersey Fraternal Order of Police, said in a post on social media that two officers had been shot in the line of duty on Friday and that one of them had “made the ultimate sacrifice.”

Matthew J. Platkin, New Jersey’s attorney general, said in a statement that “our law enforcement officers put themselves in harm’s way every day to protect our communities, and tonight is a painful reminder of the depth of the sacrifices they make.”

Gov. Phil Murphy, in a statement posted online, asked for people to “pray for these officers, their families, and all our men and women in uniform who put their lives on the line to keep us safe.”

This is a developing story and will be updated.