A 19-year-old man is in critical but stable condition at a local hospital after he and another man were shot in Jersey City early Friday morning, authorities said.

The incident, which sent police investigators to Wilkinson Avenue shortly after midnight, is at least the fourth shooting in the city since Saturday. A total of 10 people have been wounded during the recent spasm of gun violence, which Jersey City Police Chief Michael Kelly said his department is working to suppress.

"What I would like people in the community to know is anytime we have an uptick in violence our investigations get kicked up at a lot of different levels across the city," Kelly said. "We have a very good indication of what's going on and the investigations will continue to proceed until they are brought to successful conclusions."

Jersey City Police Chief Michael Kelly, seen here being sworn in, said two arrests were made in a shooting Wednesday, July 4.

Kelly did not say whether any of the incidents are related or what underlying issues are driving the recent gun violence. He pointed to a similar uptick in shootings around the same time last summer, and said overall, shootings are down this year.

As of Wednesday, New Jersey's second-largest city had seen a 27 percent drop in shootings compared to the same period in 2017 when police recorded 60 shootings, officials said. Homicides have also been fewer, dropping from 13 during the first half of 2017 to seven so far this year.

Friday morning, officers responded to a Wilkinson Avenue address halfway between Martin Luther King Drive and Ocean Avenue, where they found the 19-year-old and a 25-year-old man with gunshot wounds, Jersey City spokeswoman Kimberly Wallace-Scalcione said.

Both men were taken to Jersey City Medical Center, where they remain. The 25-year-old is listed in stable condition, Wallace-Scalcione said, adding that the investigation into the incident is ongoing.

The shooting came just over 24 hours after two people were shot in the area of Grant Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive -- about three-tenths of a mile away -- late Wednesday night. The victims suffered injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening, Wallace-Scalcione said, although their immediate conditions were not known.

On Saturday, six people were shot in two separate shootings, the first of which left five people wounded in the area of Lexington Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard. Then just after 8 a.m., another man was found with multiple gunshot wounds on Grant Avenue, less than a block from the site of Wednesday's incident.

But law enforcement is making progress, Kelly said.

Two people were arrested Thursday night in connection to Wednesday's shooting at Grant Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive. Syquil Rogers, 18, of Jersey City, was arrested on Neptune Avenue, while a 17-year-old was arrested in the area of Curries Woods.

Both are charged with two counts of criminal attempt, two counts of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault, as well as weapons offenses related to two handguns authorities say were used in the shooting of a man and a woman.

The man was shot in the stomach and the woman's ear was nicked by gunfire, officials said.

However, Kelly was tight-lipped about the circumstances surrounding Saturday's shooting at Lexington Avenue and Kennedy Boulevard. Authorities previously said two people were taken to Jersey City Medical Center by EMS, while three others were taken to the hospital in a private vehicle.

"It's certainly concerning when you have an incident where you have five people shot," Kelly said. "I feel very comfortable with the speed of the investigation and the information we have pertaining to that incident."

Kelly said when dealing with a spate the violence like the events of the last week, the department will shuffle personnel between units "to have the right man power to match the spike in violence."

Since he was named named police chief in January, Kelly said the department has established a unified crime control strategy, which includes new lines of communication between units and more intelligence-sharing. A higher priority has been placed on community policing, he said, and the department has also enrolled in Integrity First, a training module that aims to improve the moral and ethical principles officers citywide will follow.

"I can only say that I always look at the overall (crime) numbers. My goal is to always get our numbers down," Kelly said. "I think we've done that despite the spike we've had."