On the night of Saturday, March 4, 2023, 34-year-old Jersey City resident Tyreef Robinson was shot on a street near 2 Bergen Avenue. Police were called at about 10:10 p.m.; Robinson was found with a gunshot wound to his upper body and was pronounced dead at the scene just before 10:30 p.m. The Regional Medical Examiner’s Office later recorded gunshot wounds to the torso and lower extremities as the cause of death and ruled it a homicide.

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit and the Jersey City Police Department opened the investigation. This was the fourth homicide reported in Jersey City in 2023. On March 9, 2023, authorities announced the arrest of 24-year-old Brandon Montague of Jersey City; he was charged with murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and unlawful possession of a weapon. Montague was taken into custody in Newport News, Virginia, by U.S. Marshals and regional fugitive task forces and was being held there awaiting extradition to New Jersey.

Did anyone in the area around 2 Bergen Avenue on March 4 notice anything that could help the investigation?