UPDATE: Suspect wanted in the murder, theft of car with boy inside, surrenders to Philadelphia police.

PENNS GROVE -- A man was fatally shot late Saturday afternoon in front of a borough cemetery and the suspect then stole the victim's car with a child in the back seat and drove it to Pennsylvania, authorities said.

A man was shot and killed in Penns Grove Saturday afternoon. (File Photo)

The child, a one-year-old boy, was found safe in the abandoned vehicle near Fifth and Wood streets in Philadelphia, according to Salem County Prosecutor John T. Lenahan.

The incident unfolded around 4:10 p.m. Saturday on South Broad Street, south of the Church Street intersection in front of a cemetery, authorities said.

Lenahan said investigators believe there was some sort of confrontation between the victim and the suspect that sparked the shooting.

After the shooting, the suspect took off in the victim's vehicle and drove it to Philadelphia. In the back seat, strapped in his car seat, was the 1-year-old.

The victim, identified as a 24-year-old Pennsville man, was found leaning against the wrought iron fence at the cemetery.

He was taken by the Penns Grove Ambulance to The Memorial Hospital of Salem County in Mannington Township where he was pronounced dead.

Lenahan said the man's family not yet all been notified.

The child was returned to his mother, the prosecutor said.

When authorities became aware that the child was in the victim's stolen vehicle, they issued an alert to other law enforcement in the region including the U.S. Marshal's Service.

The suspect remained at large early Saturday evening, according to Lenahan.

The killing is the second homicide in Salem County in 2016. The other was the death of a young child at a Salem City apartment complex.

Anyone with information about the incident should call the Penns Grove Police Department at 856-299-0055 or Lt. Fred Parkell at the Salem County Prosecutor's Office at 856-935-7510 Ext. 8621.

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