It happened just before 3:30 a.m. Friday in the 100 block of Brunswick Street.
Video from NewsCopter 7 showed an active crime scene just after dawn.
Newark Police are working to determine what led to the shooting.
There have been no arrests.
This is the fourth homicide in Newark in the past week.
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