Police investigate shooting death of Trenton teenager

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Saturday, June 23, 2018
Shooting in Trenton
Shooting in Trenton: Gray Hall reports during Action News Mornings on June 23, 2018.

TRENTON, N.J. (WPVI) -- Authorities are investigating a shooting on the streets of Trenton, New Jersey that left a teenager dead.

Action News is told shots were fired just after 9 p.m. Friday in the 600 block of Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard.

Video from the Action Cam showed a wide area marked off with yellow caution tape and multiple police vehicles on the scene.

The Prosecutor's Office says 17-year-old Tashaughn Robinson of Trenton was found shot multiple times.

Robinson was taken to Capital Health Regional Medical Center, where he died from his wounds a short time later.

The Mercer County Homicide Task Force continues to investigate the shooting.

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