A 14-year-old shot and killed a police officer and wounded another Friday evening in New Jersey, authorities said, in a chaotic scene that witnesses described as seeing officers running down a busy street before they heard a volley of a dozen or more gunshots.

A teenager is charged with murder after a Newark, New Jersey police officer was shot and killed. A second officer is hospitalized.

A Newark police officer was killed in the line of duty Friday night in a shooting that also wounded a second officer, according to police union officials. The officers were shot at 6:37 p.m. in the area of Broadway and Carteret Street in Newark, according to a statement from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.

New Jersey’s oldest St. Patrick’s Day Parade is postponed one week as to not coincide with the funeral for slain Newark police officer Joseph Azcona.