TRENTON, N.J. — Trenton Police call the corner of Centre and Furman streets an "extra attention area." The street team canvassed it the week before. ShotSpotter heard the barrage and routed the alert. At 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, more than 50 rounds fired there anyway. Seven people were wounded, two of them teenagers. Four vehicles and a house were hit. The shooting happened in a watched block, under a detection system, after community outreach. The gunfire still came.

The seven victims and their conflicting ages

The official accounts do not agree on ages. Police Director Steve Wilson said the five adults were 30, 35, 24, 29 and 22. Mayor Reed Gusciora described the group as ranging from 17 to 30. The city statement identified the teenagers only as one male and one female.

News outlets added further variation. CBS News Philadelphia reported one teenager was 16 and another 17. News12 New Jersey said both were 17. 6abc Action News listed adult victims as 22, 24, 29, 30 and 35. WABC listed them as 20, 24, 29, 30 and 36. Police have not released names, nor have they said whether the seven knew each other or simply happened to be on the same corner.

Wilson said at a Wednesday press conference that detectives have not determined if this was a shootout or just a shooting. WABC reported at least 35 shell casings at the scene. Later counts put the number higher. Fox 29 Philadelphia said more than 60, believed to be from a semi-automatic handgun. CBS News Philadelphia had it at more than 50 shots fired. Investigators recovered casings from separate locations, which points to distinct firing positions. Wilson said these crimes are crimes of opportunity. "So when police aren't there, that's when this happened," he said. Wilson said the investigation is in its infancy.

The Centre Street corner under patrol watch

Wilson said patrol command has called the corner an "extra attention area" because of drug activity, gambling and quality-of-life problems. The Trenton Community Street Team had worked the block before and returned Wednesday afternoon to speak with neighbors and the victims' families, according to the city statement. Someone fired 50 to 60 rounds there anyway. City Council President Jenna Figueroa Kettenburg, who represents the South Ward, spoke at the Wednesday press conference. "We have children in these streets who are getting involved in things that are beyond what they need to be getting involved in," she said. 

Patrice Lavanture, who lives nearby, told reporters the street can be "a little spicy. There's a lot of drug activity and the things that come along with that." Keisha, a decade-long resident, put it simpler. "This neighborhood done got really bad," she said. A resident who has lived in the neighborhood for 15 years called the shooting an atrocity. "We have to really address the cause of it rather than being reactive to the incident itself," he said.

The shooting sits in tension with the city's own statistics. Wilson said overall crime in Trenton is down about 20 percent. Homicides are down 57 percent from this time last year. State Police numbers show shooting victims dropped from 187 in 2016 to 84 in 2024, according to Trenton Youth Wrestling which cited Regional Operations and Intelligence Center data. On the whole, the city is becoming safer. But a 50-round barrage wounding seven people does not fit that curve. The city is becoming safer. What that means for Centre and Furman is unclear.

ShotSpotter and the gunshot detection gap

Trenton first installed ShotSpotter in 2009. The contract lapsed in 2016. SoundThinking listed Trenton among its deployments before the lapse, but the exact date the city brought the sensors back is not in public records. In 2023 then-Attorney General Matthew Platkin sent $567,400 to the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office for gunshot detection technology, video management and license plate readers. Whether that grant kept the old system running or bought something new is unclear. The system heard the barrage Tuesday night.

Trenton curfew debate after the shooting

Mayor Reed Gusciora held a press conference Wednesday. He said the summer curfew, set to begin at midnight on July 1, might need to move earlier. The school-year curfew is 10 p.m. The shooting happened at 10:30 p.m., after the current curfew. The suggestion is not new territory for Gusciora. In July 2025 he imposed an emergency business curfew on East State Street between Carroll and South Broad after violence near City Hall steps, which social media has tagged as "Club City Hall." That order ran from July 18 to August 17, 2025, forcing businesses to close from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. Now he is talking about moving the whole city's summer curfew clock. The mayor and city council are discussing changes to the summer youth curfew, according to the city statement.

Gusciora called the incident "an aberration on our record — not a norm," and thanked the "vast network of partners" that responded. Governor Mikie Sherrill contacted city leaders, according to Gusciora.

As of publication, investigators have not identified suspects or made arrests. The Mercer County Shooting Response Team joined the investigation alongside Trenton Police. Tip lines are open at 609-989-4000 and 609-989-4155. Tips can be submitted via text to TPD Tips at 274637 or emailed to TPDTips@trentonpolice.net. 

The curfew is still 10 p.m. for the school year and will shift to midnight on July 1. And the system that heard the gunfire is still running, though the city has not publicly detailed the current contract terms or when the technology was reactivated.

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