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By Sam Barron From Daily Voice

A woman is in critical condition and the suspect is dead following a shooting in Linden on Monday, Aug. 18, authorities said.

At 10:15 a.m., officers responded to the 600 block of Carnegie Street and located a woman with a gunshot wound, Linden police said.  The suspect fled from the scene and barricaded himself inside of a nearby home, police said.

Officers made entry to the house and located the suspect, deceased, from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

The woman was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition, police said.

The area remains an active crime scene, and the incident remains under investigation by the Linden Police Detective Bureau and the Union County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Task Force, police said.