NEWARK -- A woman was shot and killed Monday in the South Ward* near the Irvington border, Chief Assistant Prosecutor Thomas Fennelly of the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said.

Two male victims who were shot and wounded were also found at the scene. A fourth victim, also male, was later located at University Hospital.

The shooting occurred in the 700 block of S. 19th Street near Springfield Avenue shortly before 6 p.m.

A woman at the scene said the victim was a co-worker who had just finished for the day when she was hit by a drive-by shooter.

"She was an innocent bystander," the distraught woman, who did not give her name, said. "She don't even know nobody around here."

Fennelly did not release the name of the dead woman, pending notification of next-of-kin. He withheld the names of the male victims for security reasons.

*Correction: The ward where the shooting occurred was originally misidentified.

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