Man, 19, shot and killed in New Jersey

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CLIFTON, N.J. (WCBS 880) -- Police are investigating the shooting death of a 19-year-old man in New Jersey early Monday morning, authorities said.

The shooting happened at approximately 3:45 a.m. in the vicinity of Kulick Street and Central Avenue in Clifton, officials said.

Ariel Henriquez was taken to St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson by private means with a gunshot wound, the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office said.

Henriquez was pronounced dead a short time later.

There have been no arrests made and an investigation remains ongoing.

Anyone with information is asked to call the prosecutor’s office tips line at 1-877-370-7276 or tips@passaiccountynj.org.

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