1NEWARK, N.J. – A deadly burst of gunfire tore through a South Ward neighborhood Saturday evening, leaving a young woman and a 10-year-old boy dead and three others hospitalized, officials said.

The shooting erupted around 7 p.m. near Chancellor Avenue and Leslie Street, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.

A $10,000 reward was offered within hours as investigators worked through the night to determine what sparked the violence.

“Today was a dark and devastating day in Newark as a small child fell to his death from an apartment window this afternoon and then two more innocent souls died in a shooting on Chancellor Avenue. Our city mourns loss of the baby, and the depraved and senseless killing of a 21-year-old woman and a 10-year-old boy taken from their parents as their

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