On March 13, 2025, 25-year-old Wilmer Eliu Vidal Romero was fatally shot in Trenton, New Jersey. Shot Spotter activated at about 9:23 p.m., and officers found a white Toyota 4Runner stopped in the middle of the 300 block of Dayton Street; Vidal Romero was in the driver’s seat with a severe gunshot wound. He was taken to Capital Health Regional Medical Center and pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Investigators tied the shooting to a motor vehicle crash that occurred minutes earlier at Liberty and South Broad Streets involving Vidal Romero and another man. The Mercer County Homicide Task Force and the Trenton Police Department developed a suspect, 33-year-old Bruno J. Laboy Santiago, Jr., and a warrant was issued. Laboy Santiago was arrested on March 19, 2025, in Louisiana during a traffic stop and held in St. Tammany Parish Jail awaiting extradition to New Jersey. He has been charged with first-degree murder and second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon in connection with Vidal Romero’s death.

Does anyone have information about the crash at Liberty and South Broad Streets or about movements in the Dayton and Grand Streets area that night?