The toddler was among three people wounded in the shooting in Newark last Thursday night.
It happened just after 11 p.m. on Cabinet Street, where police say the victims were sitting inside a car when they were targeted by a single male shooter outside the vehicle.
The two other victims are adults, described only as a man and a woman.
The child is in critical condition, while the adults are listed as stable.
Police have not said what led up to the violence, and it is unclear what relationship the victims have to each other.
Newark Police Division s Crime Stoppers Program is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the person or persons responsible.
Newark police offer $5K for information on shooting of 2-year-old
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
The Newark Police Division’s Crime Stoppers Program is offering up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of anyone responsible for the shooting of a 2-year-old girl last week.
The child was one of three victims who were found shot on Jan. 28 around 11:09 p.m. on Cabinet Street in Newark. A man and a woman were also shot and rushed to University Hospital with the 2-year-old, police said.
“Our Major Crimes detectives are actively searching for any suspects involved in this senseless shooting, which could have cost this child her life in a split second,” said Newark Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose.
Man dies after being found lying in snow in Newark park during winter storm
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
A man who was found in the snow in a Newark park Monday morning during the winter storm has died, police said.
Police responded to Lincoln Park in the city at 9:40 a.m. on a call of an unresponsive man lying in the park, Newark Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose said. The man has not yet been identified by police. Snowfall amounts in Essex County ranged from 14 to 20 inches from the three-day storm.
He was taken to University Hospital but was later pronounced dead, Ambrose said. TAPinto Newark first reported the man’s death.
Protesters call for federal civil rights probe into fatal police shooting in Newark
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
Civil rights activists are calling on New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor to investigate the fatal shooting of Carl Dorsey III by a Newark plainclothes detective, after authorities released a videotape of the chaotic, deadly encounter just after midnight on New Year’s Day, and appeared to contradict an earlier assertion by local officials that weapons were recovered at the scene.
“Tonight, I’m calling publicly on Rachel Honig, the acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, to launch a civil rights investigation into the murder of Carl Dorsey,” said People’s Organization for Progress Chairman Lawrence Hamm, addressing two dozen protestors gathered in the bitter cold Thursday night at the scene of shooting on South 11th Street at Woodlawn Avenue.
This N.J. director is a model for police across the country, AG says. He’s retiring.
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
Posted Jan 27, 2021
Mayor Ras Baraka holds a press conference announcing a 31 percent decrease in homicide in 2017, as Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose looks on, at the Department of Public Safety in Newark on December 13, 2017. Alexandra Pais | For NJ Advance MediaAlexandra Pais | For NJ Advance
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Newark Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose will retire March 31 after working 34 years in local law enforcement and overseeing several reforms among the city police.
Ambrose was named the city’s first public safety director in late 2015, when the police, fire and emergency management departments were consolidated under Mayor Ras Baraka. His departure announcement comes less than a month after the city appointed Lee Douglas as acting police chief when Darnell Henry retired.