Shortly after midnight on Labor Day, September 2, 2024, Newark police responded to reports of gunfire on the 100 block of Chadwick Avenue and found 33-year-old Darryl A. Craft suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to University Hospital and pronounced dead at 12:54 a.m.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Task Force, working with Newark detectives, investigated and examined a possible link between Craft’s shooting and another nearby incident the next day in which several people were injured by gunfire. On October 7, 2024, authorities arrested 21-year-old Zyion A. Williams-Jones, who has addresses in Newark and Phillipsburg, and charged him with murder, unlawful possession of a weapon, and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. He is being held at the Essex County Correctional Facility and the investigation remains active.

If anyone has information about Darryl Craft, the events on Chadwick Avenue that night, or the related neighborhood shootings, please come forward.