Shortly after midnight on April 23, 2023, police responding to reports of shots fired inside a smoke shop on Danforth Avenue in Jersey City found 23-year-old Khalil King of Fayetteville, North Carolina, unresponsive inside the store. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene at 12:16 a.m. The Regional Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death as a gunshot wound to the head and ruled the manner of death a homicide.

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit and the Jersey City Police Department opened an investigation into the shooting. Initially the circumstances were unclear and no arrests were announced while detectives worked the case. If anyone was in or near the Danforth Avenue smoke shop that night, or has information about Khalil King’s movements in Jersey City around April 23, please come forward to investigators.