In the late evening of May 11, 2022, 23-year-old Jahque Tyrese Benbow was fatally shot while working at a gas station on the 500 block of Grove Street in Irvington, New Jersey. Police found Benbow with gunshot wounds and he was transported to University Hospital in Newark, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force investigated and determined the killing resulted from a conspiracy involving three people. Authorities say 36-year-old Lamar Sommers of Bloomfield drove two others to a location a block from the station; those two then approached and fired five shots at Benbow. Sommers fled New Jersey but was arrested in North Carolina on June 16, 2022, and charged with first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and weapons offenses despite not being the triggerman.

After an eight-day jury trial, Sommers was found guilty on all counts; sentencing was scheduled for December 4, 2023. If anyone knew Benbow, his routines, or saw suspicious activity near that gas station on May 11, 2022, please share what is known.