On the late afternoon of Friday, July 8, 2022, gunfire rang out on the 100 block of Prospect Avenue in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Officers arriving shortly after 5:45 p.m. found 19-year-old Dariel Vernet suffering from multiple gunshot wounds; he was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center and pronounced dead about an hour later. An autopsy later determined his death was a homicide.

The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office Major Crimes Bureau and the Asbury Park Police Department identified two local residents as responsible. One suspect, Joseph N. Argilagos, then 16, was taken into custody days after the shooting; the other, Lydell Brown, then 19, remained at large for months before being located and arrested in Toms River in May 2023.

If anyone in Asbury Park remembers sightings or has information about Vernet in the days before July 8, 2022, please come forward to assist the ongoing investigation.