On a late summer evening in Newark, New Jersey, 34-year-old Michael Rutledge was shot dead near Spruce Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard. Just before 9 p.m. on Monday, August 23, 2021, gunfire was reported in the area; officers found Rutledge on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead at 9:27 p.m.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, working with Newark Police detectives, opened an investigation and a tip line was established. No arrests have been made and no suspects have been publicly identified. Less than five months later, Rutledge’s brother, Radress S. Wilson, was also shot and killed in Newark.

What can readers add about Michael Rutledge’s movements or anyone seen near Spruce Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard on the night of August 23, 2021?