NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Prosecutors are investigating a police pursuit in New Jersey in which a female pedestrian was struck and killed.
The Essex County prosecutor’s office said two males in a stolen Jeep Cherokee carjacked a car driver in East Orange shortly after 10:30 p.m. Saturday.
Prosecutors said the Jeep, believed to have been involved in an earlier shooting, was spotted by Newark police and officers began a pursuit.
The prosecutor’s office said the suspect vehicle crashed into another driver, forcing his car into parked cars. A woman crossing the street was pinned between two parked cars.
Twenty-nine-year-old Priscilla Goday of Newark was rushed to University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at midnight.
No arrests were immediately announced.
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