Leighton Brown, 47, was shot just before 1 a.m. on June 30, 2026 near Fulton Avenue and Bayside Place in Jersey City. He was found with a gunshot wound, taken to Jersey City Medical Center, and pronounced dead several hours later. The shooting was recorded as the city’s sixth homicide that year.

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit and the Jersey City Police Department opened an immediate investigation. Authorities identified 49-year-old Jersey City resident Terrence Glenn as a person of interest, located and detained him, and later charged him with murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and unlawful possession of a weapon.

What details about that early morning confrontation or possible witnesses could help clarify how the shooting unfolded?