HOBOKEN -- An 18-year-old was fatally shot in Hoboken on Tuesday afternoon, the Hudson County Prosecutor's office said.

"We are confirming that there was a fatal shooting in Hoboken," said Ray Worrall, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office. "It was an 18-year-old male, and the investigation is ongoing."

The shooting occurred just after 3 p.m., on the 300 Block of Marshall Drive, a street within the Andrew Jackson Gardens public housing complex on the city's western edge.

Hoboken police initially responded to the incident. However, police Chief Kenneth Ferrante declined to comment, and referred questions to the prosecutor's office.

A city spokesman, Juan Melli, also declined to discuss the shooting.

"It's their investigation," Melli said. "It's not our jurisdiction anymore."

A spokesman for Jersey City Medical Center, Mark Rabson, said a person who had been shot was brought to the medical center from Hoboken on Tuesday afternoon. He declined to elaborate.

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