On the night of November 2, 2021, 24-year-old Dymir Leonard was found shot at the intersection of Memorial Drive and Bangs Avenue in Asbury Park, New Jersey. An off-duty Asbury Park police lieutenant discovered him shortly after 9:45 p.m.; he was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center and pronounced dead in the early hours of November 3, 2021. An autopsy listed a gunshot wound to the chest as the cause of death and the death was ruled a homicide.

Investigators quickly identified a suspect, 34-year-old Mark D. Walker II of Woodbridge, Virginia. When prosecutors moved to execute a search warrant at an apartment in Long Branch on November 5, Walker shot a detective, barricaded himself inside with a two-week-old infant, set the apartment on fire, and emerged using the infant as a human shield while firing at officers. Three SWAT team members returned fire and Walker was fatally wounded; the infant was unharmed.

Does anyone have information about Leonard’s last movements in Asbury Park on November 2 that could help clarify what happened?