William Laws, a 22-year-old Black man who lived on Davies Road in Newark’s Chestnut Hill Estates neighborhood, was shot in the torso around 2:08 a.m. on March 9, 2018. Officers responding to a report of a shooting found him inside or near a vehicle at the intersection of Malvern Road and Augusta Drive; he was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead shortly afterward.

Investigators treated the case as an active homicide. Within a day police arrested 19-year-old Shai Thodos, 19-year-old Noah Youngs and 18-year-old Edwin Rivera. Authorities later identified Kalif Reeves as a suspect, obtained an arrest warrant, and with FBI assistance took him into custody on May 22, 2018.

Few public reports describe a motive or the precise events that led to the shooting. Does anyone have information about what happened that night or knew William Laws?