In the early morning hours of Sunday, April 14, 2024, a shooting on Melville Place in Irvington, New Jersey, left a man dead. Officers arrived at about 2:30 a.m. and found 61-year-old Oliver A. Francis of Brooklyn suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead at 3:18 a.m.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Task Force, with detectives from the Irvington Police Department, is treating the death as a homicide. No motive or suspects have been announced and the investigation is described as active and ongoing.

If anyone has information about the shooting on Melville Place or saw anything in Irvington that early morning, please contact the Essex County Prosecutor’s tip line.