A man suspected of wounding two police officers in a shooting in Newark, New Jersey, is in police custody, two law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation said Wednesday.
A man suspected of wounding two police officers in a shooting in Newark, New Jersey, is in police custody, two law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation said Wednesday.
Kendall Howard, 30, is accused of shooting two Newark police officers as they tried to question him near an apartment building in the city Tuesday afternoon, authorities had said.
The Newark Police Department Emergency Response Team arrested Howard around 11:10 a.m. after a more than seven-hour search, said Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens during a news conference Wednesday. He was arrested in the apartment building where the shooting took place, Stephens said.
The more than seven hours included both a search of the building as well as an evacuation of the building’s residents.
