Isaiah M. Velasquez was 17 when he was shot in Jersey City on the evening of June 24, 2023. Officers found Velasquez with an apparent gunshot wound to the torso; he was transported to Jersey City Medical Center but was pronounced dead at about 8:57 p.m. that night. The Regional Medical Examiner’s Office was handling the cause and manner of death.

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit and the Jersey City Police Department opened an active investigation and identified a suspect, 22-year-old Isaiah McCord of Bayonne. McCord was arrested at the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office in Secaucus on June 25, 2023, and charged with murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. He was held at the Hudson County Correctional Facility awaiting his first court appearance.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who were in the 16th Street and Coles Street area that evening who can share what they saw or heard?