On the evening of July 19, 2021, Jermel R. Carter, a 38-year-old Black man from Trenton, New Jersey, was fatally shot on the first block of Ellsworth Avenue. City police were alerted by the ShotSpotter system and found Carter around 8 p.m. with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. His death was the second homicide in Trenton within a six-hour span, though authorities have not publicly linked the two incidents.

Carter was remembered by his family as someone who deeply loved them and valued time with his children. Born in Jamaica, Queens, on September 3, 1982, he moved to Trenton as a child, attended the city’s public schools, and worked as a laborer and warehouse worker. He had a prior history with law enforcement and survived a gang-related shooting in 2012 that left him critically injured. No arrests have been announced and the investigation remains ongoing.

Does anyone have information about Carter’s last known movements or who might have been in the Ellsworth Avenue area that night?