Mustapha Gbassa, 35, was shot and killed on the morning of January 23, 2023, in Camden, New Jersey. At about 8:21 a.m. a ShotSpotter activation alerted police to gunfire in the 1100 block of Lansdowne Avenue; officers found Gbassa suffering from a gunshot wound and he was taken to Virtua Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:31 a.m.

The Camden County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit and the Camden County Police Department opened an intensive investigation. The next day, January 24, 2023, 26-year-old Dimear Caraballo of Camden was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service New York/New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force and charged with first-degree murder, second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon; he was remanded to the Camden County Correctional Facility.

If anyone witnessed the shooting on Lansdowne Avenue or has information about what happened that morning, please come forward.