A midday shooting in Carteret, New Jersey left 27-year-old Malik Pandy dead on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. Pandy was sitting in a parked vehicle on Lincoln Avenue when gunfire erupted at about 1:06 p.m. A second man who was with him was also shot, taken to the hospital, treated and later released; Pandy died of his wounds at the hospital.

The Carteret Police Department and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office worked the investigation and asked the public for information and surveillance footage. Investigators identified a fellow Carteret resident as the suspected shooter. The following Sunday a 29-year-old man surrendered to police and was arrested on charges that include first-degree murder for Pandy’s death, first-degree attempted murder for the other victim, second-degree aggravated assault and weapon possession counts; he was being held pending a pre-trial detention hearing.

If anyone witnessed the shooting on Lincoln Avenue that afternoon or has surveillance footage from nearby properties, please come forward with information.