No arrests in stabbing death of a Newark woman inside her home

⚫ A 66 year old woman was fatally stabbed in her Newark home

⚫ No arrests have been made

⚫ Police are asking for the public's help

NEWARK — Police need the public’s help to figure out who stabbed a 66-year-old woman to death inside her Newark home on Wednesday.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force is investigating the fatal stabbing of Annie D. Gooden, according to Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, and Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Frage.

On June 7, just before 2 p.m., police responded to a report of an unresponsive woman inside the home on Sunset Avenue.

Inside they found Gooden suffering from apparent multiple stab wounds.

She was pronounced dead 20 minutes later.

No arrests have been made and the investigation remains active and ongoing.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office at 1-877-TIPS-4EC.

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Places in NJ where gun owners have sued to carry a legal gun

New Jersey passed its own law in December, trying to ban legal guns from “sensitive places.”

A federal judge found many of those spots to be legally protected on grounds of armed self-defense, noting in her opinion, “Crowded locations are not sensitive places."

As of June, a federal appeals court granted the state attorney general's request to keep part of the law that bars people from carrying handguns in “sensitive places” in effect.

The decision means handguns cannot be carried in places such as zoos, public parks, public libraries and museums, bars, and health care facilities.

The law bars handguns from being carried in those places as well as schools and child care facilities. The lower court's May injunction did not specify those locations, and the appeals court also didn't remove the prohibition in those places.

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