Yasin Morrison Death; A 9-year-old boy named Yasin Morrison was shot and killed in Newark on Friday night at around 5:30 p.m. on Osborne Terrace. Morrison’s grandmother, Tisha Bolden, tells Eyewitness News that her grandson has autism and is non-verbal, and she is now urging the shooter to surrender. Police are still looking for the suspect.
“You took a life, you took a special life — a sweet boy that could never be replaced,” she said. “Wherever you are, I just wish you do the right thing and turn yourself in, come forward and deal with whatever that has to be dealt with because he did not deserve what happened to him.”
First responders transported the victim to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office said a man was also shot during the incident. He was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive.
One neighbor told Eyewitness News he heard as many as 10 shots from the shooting. Another saw what looked like a car crash behind the crime scene tape.
Meanwhile, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka released a statement calling the shooting “sickening.”
“Tonight, I am outraged by the incomprehensible death of an eight-year-old boy who was shot in our city. It is sickening to me that anyone would be so deranged to recklessly endanger an innocent child. And that the child lost his life, is just infuriating to me as a father myself. We will not tolerate this reckless and dangerous behavior. The killer should know- we are coming after you. We are not going to rest until we find you, so turn yourself in now,” Baraka said.
Authorities are offering a reward of up to $10,000 to anyone who provides information that leads to an arrest.
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