On the night of December 20, 2022, police in Vineland, New Jersey responded to the 400 block of Landis Avenue after shots were reported and found 35-year-old Russell Workman of Sewell with apparent gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators say surveillance footage captured an interaction between Workman and a man believed to be Desmond L. Scarbrough-Brown, 28, of Vineland, and that the footage shows the man drawing a weapon and shooting Workman as he was walking away. Scarbrough-Brown was arrested on December 23, 2022, and charged with murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and unlawful possession of a weapon; he was booked into the Cumberland County Jail. A grand jury later returned an indictment connected to the killing.

The circumstances that led to the shooting remain under investigation. If anyone has information about Russell’s movements that night or the incident on Landis Avenue, please come forward.