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$5,000 Reward Offered In Phillips Road Shooting

October 23, 2019 Crime News

Yellow police tape stretches across Matilda Avenue early in the morning of Oct. 23.

Authorities are offering a reward of up to $5,000 to solve the Oct. 22 shooting on Matilda Avenue that left a 20-year-old township woman in critical condition.

Earlier reports that the victim had been killed were incorrect.

Police responded to a 9-1-1 call at about 7:20 p.m. reporting that shots had been fired, and a car was in the road, on Phillips Road, near Matilda Avenue, according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.

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