On Thursday afternoon, January 22, 2015, 36-year-old Javon Brown of Dartmouth was shot and killed outside the MetroPCS store at Coggeshall Street and Belleville Avenue in New Bedford. Brown, who worked as a manager at the store, was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital and pronounced dead. The shooting was New Bedford’s first homicide of the year.

Investigators from the New Bedford Police Department and the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office focused quickly on 36-year-old New Bedford resident Jason Valliere. Less than 12 hours after the shooting authorities obtained an arrest warrant; Valliere later turned himself in and was initially charged as an accessory after the fact before charges were upgraded to murder. Prosecutors said Brown was shot once inside the store and once outside, that Valliere left his cell phone behind in the store, that clothing and vehicle evidence tied him to the scene, and that a grand jury indicted him on murder and unlawful possession of a firearm in April 2015.

Does anyone have information about Javon Brown, his work at the MetroPCS store, or the events that afternoon?