Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey asked people to “please pray” for the officers, who were shot around 6:30 p.m. Friday.

One Newark police officer was fatally shot and another seriously injured in the city Friday night, according to the New Jersey State PBA.

One Garden State police officer was fatally shot and another wounded in a furious gun battle with at least one suspect in Newark on Friday night, according to sources and news reports. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said that two Garden State police officers were shot Friday night.

A teenager is charged with murder after a Newark, New Jersey police officer was shot and killed. A second officer is hospitalized.

A police officer was shot and killed and another wounded on Friday evening in New Jersey, authorities said. Authorities say the slain officer, 26-year-old Joseph Azcona, was part of a Newark police intelligence team that had gone to capture a suspect in an illegal weapons investigation when he was fired on in his vehicle.

A Newark police officer was killed in the line of duty Friday night in a shooting that also wounded a second officer, according to police union officials. The officers were shot at 6:37 p.m. in the area of Broadway and Carteret Street in Newark, according to a statement from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.