Rolando Acte Mejia, 36, was found dead inside his vehicle on White Street in Howell, New Jersey in the early morning hours after being fatally shot. The Howell Police Department and the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office treated the scene as a homicide; two 9mm shell casings and a projectile were recovered from inside the victim’s car.

Investigators say Mejia had been involved in an affair with the wife of another Howell resident, identified as Juan Jesus Mejia Yanza, 33. Police allege that surveillance footage and cell phone records show Yanza used a white Ford Explorer with aftermarket emergency lights, resembling an unmarked police cruiser, to stop Mejia’s vehicle near a local Wawa, then approached and shot him while Mejia was on the phone with the woman. Authorities arrested Yanza at his Howell home and charged him with first-degree murder and two related second-degree weapons offenses.

Anyone who was in that area of Howell that night or who has information about the white Ford Explorer or the encounter near the Wawa is asked to come forward.