Mass shooting at unauthorized Trenton block party kills 2, wounds 8

In the early hours of a Sunday morning in Trenton's Wilbur neighborhood, a gathering of roughly a hundred people — neighbors, friends, the kind of informal community that assembles on warm summer nights — became the site of a mass shooting that claimed two lives and wounded eight more. The violence, which unfolded on Locust Street around 12:25 a.m. on August 30th, 2026, was carried out by multiple gunmen who walked into the crowd and opened fire, leaving behind more than fifty shell casings and a community grappling with grief and unanswered questions. As investigators search for motive and ci