On the morning of May 14, 2021, 25-year-old Edward Javier of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was found dead in a backyard on Haverhill Street. He had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. The Essex District Attorney’s Office, together with Lawrence and state police, opened a homicide investigation.

Investigators identified and arrested three local men in connection with the killing. A 17-year-old, Adrian Corniel De La Cruz, was charged with murder. Two others were charged in related roles: 22-year-old Francisco Jose Tejada Torres was accused of driving the getaway vehicle and charged as an accessory after the fact, and 18-year-old Jjeremy Mena was arrested on charges including carrying a firearm without a license and being an accessory before and after the fact; Mena also faced charges of escape and assault and battery on a police officer after an attempt to flee from the Lawrence Police Station.

What can readers who knew Edward or saw activity on Haverhill Street that morning add to the record?