NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) -- One man is under arrest in a fatal shooting in Newark Wednesday after police found him hiding in a dumpster.
Police say they arrested Joan Aguiree, 23, near Kearny Street and Broadway behind a high school. He's charged with murder and weapons possession charges.
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The officers had been responding to a double shooting outside a store on Bloomfield Avenue and Garside Street. 26-year-old Victor A. Brantley was fatally shot. Another man who just happened to be in the area was also shot, but sustained non-life threatening injuries.
Officers had fired their weapons when they say they saw Aguiree fleeing the scene, but no one was shot.
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No officers were injured in the confrontation.
The shooting brought a large number of police officers to Newark's North Ward. The entire incident is under investigation by the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.
There was at least one other separate non-fatal shooting on Third Avenue and North 10th Street. It was not linked to these other incidents at this time.