Cedric Hennessee Flippin, 29, was found dead outside a storage unit at a Public Storage facility on Parkside Avenue in Ewing Township on the evening of November 29, 2021. Responding officers discovered he had sustained gunshot wounds to the head and neck and pronounced him dead at the scene; a single shell casing was recovered nearby.

The Mercer County Homicide Task Force and the Ewing Police Department led the investigation and identified a suspect within days. On December 2, 2021, U.S. Marshals arrested 30-year-old Daryl K. Smith at Newark Liberty International Airport as he prepared to board a flight. Smith was charged with first-degree murder, weapons offenses including possession for an unlawful purpose, two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon, and a second-degree certain persons not to possess a firearm charge. Reports noted the victim and the accused had been arrested together in 2019 at the Jackson Premium Outlets.

Did anyone in the Ewing or Trenton area know Cedric Flippin or see him on November 29, 2021?