Shortly after midnight on Saturday, July 23, 2022, 31-year-old Tameel Grimes was found with a fatal gunshot wound on the 300 block of New Street in Newark. Officers discovered him at about 12:22 a.m.; he was pronounced dead at the scene within thirty minutes. Nearby, another man suffering a gunshot wound was found at Norfolk and Hartford streets and taken to University Hospital.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and Newark detectives led the investigation. Authorities identified 33-year-old Joseph Dowdell of Newark as the primary suspect; he was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in Grimes’s death, second-degree assault for the nonfatal shooting, and two weapons offenses. A second Newark resident, 31-year-old Shanade McDaniel, was arrested and charged with second-degree hindering prosecution.

Were there witnesses on or near New Street that night who saw anything that could clarify how this unfolded?