2 dead, 12 injured in New Jersey birthday party shooting

2 dead, 12 injured in New Jersey birthday party shooting

An outdoor birthday party at a southern New Jersey home ended in a barrage of gunfire Saturday night that left two people dead and 12 injured, police said. A massive search for the unidentified assailant continued Sunday morning in Cumberland County, where the mass shooting broke out at a large home in Bridgeton, New Jersey, near Fairfield, just before midnight, prompting party revelers to dive for cover or run for their lives. A 30-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman were fatally shot, and a dozen other injured adults were taken to hospitals, including one in critical condition, according to the New Jersey State Police. The names of the two people fatally shot were not immediately released. One partygoer described himself as the uncle of the woman shot to death, telling ABC station WPVI in Philadelphia that his niece was "a good girl" and he is "absolutely heartbroken."