A New Jersey man was charged after allegedly shooting and killing his girlfriend, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office.

The shooting happened on Sunday, Nov. 16 around 5:51 a.m. near Oakland Street in Trenton, officials said.

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Officers with the Trenton Police Department got notifications from a nearby ShotSpotter that several gunshots were heard and then the department started getting phone calls reporting that a woman was shot in the leg, police said.

When the officers got to the scene, they found a woman, 25, with a gunshot wound to her leg and she was taken to a nearby hospital, police explained.

While this was happening, prosecutor's said that police got another call reporting that a w

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