On New Year’s Eve 2019, a party at an apartment at 7B Summer Street in Lawrence, Massachusetts, ended in violence when 35-year-old Wilson Javier was shot. Javier, a Dominican-born father described by family as humorous, humble and generous who enjoyed fishing and time with loved ones, tried to disarm another partygoer, 25-year-old Luis Polanco of Lawrence, after Polanco fired a shot into the ceiling and declared the party over. Polanco then shot Javier three times.

Emergency services were called at 11:49 p.m.; Javier was taken to Lawrence General Hospital and was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. The Essex District Attorney’s Office, Essex State Police Detectives and the Lawrence Police investigated the killing. Polanco turned himself in to the New York City Police Department in early January 2020 and was returned to Massachusetts to face charges.

What more can readers who knew Wilson or were at the party add about that night?