Late on the night of Wednesday, October 13, 2021, gunfire in the Donnelly Homes neighborhood of Trenton, New Jersey, led officers to the 900 block of Southard Street, where a 26-year-old man was found with multiple gunshot wounds. The victim was identified as Melvin Jaquan Williams, a Burlington resident born in Trenton. He was transported to Capital Health Regional Medical Center and pronounced dead.

Known as Costal Creek, Williams was a Burlington High School graduate studying accounting at Rowan College of Burlington. Described as comedic and family-oriented, he was the father of a young daughter. The Mercer County Homicide Task Force and Trenton Police Department opened an investigation; in the days after the shooting no suspects or arrests were publicly announced and the case remained under investigation.

If anyone has information about what happened on Southard Street that night, please come forward to assist the investigation.