On the evening of July 20, 2026, 28-year-old Paco M. Moore was shot and killed while with his fiancée, Julia Emerson, their 16-month-old daughter, and other relatives near Carr Avenue in Keansburg, New Jersey. The family had been playing Pokémon Go around 9 p.m. when what sounded like fireworks turned out to be gunfire. Family accounts say Moore moved toward a commotion at a nearby coin laundry, apparently to intervene, and was struck; his fiancée recalled him falling with what she described as a neck wound, though later reports indicated a headshot.

He was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead. Moore and Emerson were expecting a second child in the coming weeks. The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office opened a homicide investigation and no arrests had been announced. A GoFundMe was created to support the grieving family.

If anyone has information about that night or the people involved near Carr Avenue, please share it with the authorities.