In the early evening of a Tuesday in September 2021, 60-year-old Hector Guzman was found in the roadway on Van Houten Street in Paterson with an apparent gunshot wound. Paterson police arrived after reports of a shooting at about 8:13 p.m. He was taken to Saint Joseph’s University Medical Center in critical condition and died there at 11:37 p.m.

The Paterson Police Department and the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office investigated and identified two suspects, 44-year-old Marc DeJesus and 32-year-old Cassandra Ramirez, both from Paterson. About ten days later, on September 24, 2021, they were located in Barnegat, New Jersey, and arrested by a combined law enforcement team. DeJesus tried to flee by jumping from a second-floor window but was captured; Ramirez was taken into custody without incident. Both were charged with murder and weapons offenses.

Did anyone in Paterson see activity on Van Houten Street that evening or have information about Guzman’s last movements?