Quashawn Moses, 20, of East Orange was shot and killed in Irvington Township in the early morning hours of a Monday in June 2024. Irvington police responded to multiple reports of shots fired around 1:22 a.m. and found Moses near the entrance of a building in the 300 block of 21st Street suffering from gunshot wounds. He was taken to University Hospital in Newark and pronounced dead at 2:59 a.m.

The shooter fled before officers arrived and had not been apprehended as of the latest reports. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Task Force and Irvington detectives are investigating, and authorities have asked anyone with information to contact the prosecutor’s tips line. If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information about the suspect or the events that night, please come forward.