On the evening of January 19, 2022, 18-year-old Samore Ariel Edwards was found shot inside a parked vehicle on Washington Avenue in Neptune, New Jersey. A 19-year-old companion, Isaiah Williams, was also shot; Edwards was pronounced dead at the scene and Williams later died at a hospital. Both victims were from the area, with Edwards identified as a Union County resident.

The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office and the Neptune Township Police Department opened an intensive investigation into the double shooting. Authorities sought public assistance in the weeks and months that followed as they pieced together what happened that night.

What can anyone who was in the Washington Avenue area on January 19, 2022, or who knew Samore Edwards tell investigators about that evening?