


A teenage girl and boy were shot in a broad daylight attack in Newark on Thursday – just steps from two schools, authorities said.
A 15-year-old boy and 14-year-old boy were shot around 2:55 p.m. at South 11th Street and South Orange Avenue, local police said.
They were taken to University Hospital, where both were listed in stable condition.
The incident is under investigation and the motive was not immediately known.
The daytime shooting unfolded blocks from both KIPP Rise Academy – a charter school for grades 5 through 8 – and West Side High School.
The violence happened just over a week after Imam Hassan Sharif was fatally shot outside a mosque about eight blocks away.
Sharif, the imam of Masjid Muhammed, was preparing to engage in the first of his daily prayers around 6:15 a.m. Jan. 3 when an unidentified gunman approached him and opened fire near the intersection of Camden Street and South Orange Avenue, authorities said at the time.
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said that the shooting did not appear to be bias-motivated.