Overview
- Police responded to Elizabeth Towers on Elizabeth Avenue around 7 a.m. Saturday, where first responders pronounced the 2-year-old dead at the scene.
- Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and Newark police say the case remains active, with no identity released for the child.
- Officials asked anyone with information to call the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Tips Line at 1-877-TIPS-4EC (1-877-847-7432), with assurances that calls are confidential.
- News footage showed crews covering an open 20th-floor window as tenants described existing window guards in some units and raised maintenance and safety concerns.
- Neighbors told reporters the family was from Ghana, and Newark’s mayor called the loss part of a devastating day that also included a separate fatal shooting.