A 27-year-old father was killed trying to protect his children during a carjacking in Trenton. Johny Emuel Cruz-Rodriguez was fatally shot on the evening of July 12, 2024, in the area of Garfield and Farragut avenues after an assailant got into the driver’s seat of his white Dodge Durango and began driving away. Cruz-Rodriguez, who jumped into the moving vehicle to reach his two children — a 3-year-old and a 2-month-old, both still secured in car seats — was shot multiple times during the struggle.

The vehicle crashed a short distance away, overturned after striking two parked cars, and Cruz-Rodriguez was pronounced dead at the scene; the children were found unharmed. Family members remembered him as a hero and started a fundraiser to return his body to Honduras.

Was anyone in the area that evening able to see or record what happened near Garfield and Farragut avenues?