On the evening of October 18, 2024, a burst of gunfire in a Vineland, New Jersey neighborhood left one man dead and another wounded. Mark A. Brown, 30 and a lifelong Vineland resident, was found by police unresponsive in the driver’s seat of a vehicle on Southeast Boulevard between Sherman and Grant avenues with a fatal gunshot wound. He was taken to Inspira Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. A 34-year-old male passenger from Vineland was also shot, treated at the same hospital, and released.

Known also as Mark Anthony Hines-Brown, he was a devoted father to four children: Armani, Aalayah, Dior, and Paris, and had interests in cars, music, and fashion. The Vineland Police Department and the Cumberland County Prosecutor’s Office are investigating; no arrests have been announced and the shooter or shooters have not been identified.

If anyone in Vineland that night saw the vehicle on Southeast Boulevard or has information about who was responsible, please come forward.