On the night of February 3, 2024, 34-year-old Marquis Newson was shot in a parking lot on Springfield Street in Chicopee, Massachusetts, across from City Hall. Officers responding to reports of gunfire found him critically wounded in the Ames Privilege parking lot; he was taken to Baystate Medical Center and died of his injuries on February 5, 2024. The death was investigated as a homicide.

The Chicopee Police Department led the inquiry with assistance from the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit assigned to the Hampden District Attorney’s Office and the Hampden DA’s Murder Unit. Investigators said their work over the following months led to the arrest of 32-year-old Chicopee resident Jalal Williams in early May 2024; he was charged with murder, arraigned in Chicopee District Court, ordered held without bail, and given a next court date of June 7. Authorities did not release a motive or detail what evidence connected Williams to the shooting.

Marquis was born in Springfield and remembered by family as playful, always smiling, a devoted father to a son and a daughter, a protective brother, and a sports fan who loved music. Who in the community may have seen or heard something that night and can help investigators complete the picture?