UPDATE: Jersey City fatal shooting was a "senseless act of violence," family says.

JERSEY CITY -- One person is dead and multiple people were injured in an early morning shooting near Journal Square in Jersey City, authorities said.

The shooting was reported at about 2 a.m. on Van Wagenan Avenue between Sip and Pavonia avenues.

The Hudson County Prosecutor's Office has confirmed one man died from his injuries and three others were shot, a spokesman for the department said. The conditions of the other three victims were not immediately available.

According to police radio transmissions, one victim was shot in the left arm and another was shot in the right elbow.

Additional information was not immediately available.

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