Imam ‘in critical condition’ after gunshot wound outside mosque

An imam from Newark, near New York, was seriously injured by gunfire this Wednesday morning, January 3, and was hospitalized in critical condition, the police announced.

According to an email from the Newark Public Safety Press Office, police responded at dawn after imam Hassan Sharif was shot in one or more shots outside the mosque in this industrial and multicultural city. .

“The victim was transported to University Hospital and is reportedly in critical condition,” said Fritz Fragé, Newark’s director of public safety, but said nothing about the possible motive for this attack by ball.

His spokesperson confirmed that the man “is indeed the imam” of this city west of Manhattan, on the other side of the Hudson River, and that “the incident took place outside of the mosque.”