A man was shot twice in an early morning incident on a Jersey City street Sunday, police said in radio transmissions.
Police said in the transmissions that the the man’s injuries — he was reported shot in the groin and femur — were life-threatening. The victim was shot on Forrest Street between Bergen Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive at approximately 3 a.m.
Police responded to what was initially reported as a shots-fired incident in which a window of a Forrest Street home were struck. Police soon found that a man was shot and the victim had been taken to the Jersey City Medical Center in a private vehicle.
During a preliminary investigation into the shooting, police recovered roughly a dozen shell casings on Forrest Street, police said in the radio transmissions.
Jersey City police did not respond to a request for details on the incident.