11:53 p.m. ET, June 26, 2019
Fact check: Cory Booker on violence in his Newark neighborhood
From CNN's David Shortell
Cory Booker often notes on the campaign trail that he lives in a low-income, inner-city area. During Wednesday night's debate, the former Newark, NJ, mayor said that seven people were shot in his Newark neighborhood last week.
"I hear gunshots in my neighborhood,” Booker said. “I think I'm the only one, I hope I am the only one that had seven people shot in their neighborhood just last week."
Fact Check: It's sad, and it's true.
Six people were injured and one man died in two separate shootings in Newark’s Central Ward, where Booker lives, the Tuesday before last, according to Newark Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose.
Two women were injured and one man was killed in the first shooting, just before 4 p.m., Ambrose
said in a press release. Five minutes and about a mile away four men were injured in another shooting, Ambrose said.
Booker lives just a block away from that first shooting.