JERSEY CITY -- One person is dead and a child was injured in a double shooting Easter night, authorities said.

The shooting was reported near Ocean and Van Nostrand avenues, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said in a tweet.

One man was pronounced dead at the scene and a child was brought to the the hospital to be treated for injuries, Prosecutor Esther Suarez announced on social media.

Confirming one male D.O.A. and one child being treated at the hospital. — ProsecutorSuarezHCPO (@HCPOProsecutor) April 17, 2017

Authorities have not given an update on the child's condition, but sources say the child was in surgery at Jersey City Medical Center.

Additional information was not immediately available about the shooting.

If ruled a homicide, the victim's death will be the sixth murder in Jersey City and the eighth murder in Hudson County this year.

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