In the pre-dawn hours of July 27, 2022, gunfire was reported near 21st Street and Avenue A in Bayonne, New Jersey. Officers found a man inside a vehicle on West 21st Street; he was identified as 23-year-old Damoi Davauni Campbell of New York and was pronounced dead at the scene. The Regional Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Campbell’s death a homicide caused by gunshot wounds to his back.

Almost a year later, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit announced charges against three people in connection with the killing. In late June 2023, Mitchell Watson, 22, and Hafis Jackson, 20, both from Salem, New Jersey, and Daynajah Payne, 24, of Irvington were charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Watson and Jackson were also charged with unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.

Payne was arrested in Long Valley on June 28, 2023; Watson was arrested the next day in Salem and both were held at the Hudson County Correctional Facility. Jackson was already in custody at the Howard R. Young Correctional Institution in Wilmington, Delaware on unrelated charges. Did anyone in the area see or hear anything in the early morning of July 27, 2022 that could help explain what happened?