On the evening of July 8, 2021, a motor vehicle crash at Highland Terrace and Grove Street in Irvington, New Jersey, led officers to a vehicle where 38-year-old Tariq Patterson, a Black resident of Irvington, was found with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to University Hospital in Newark and pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and the Irvington Police Department opened an investigation. The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately clear and authorities asked the public for information while the case remained active.

On October 1, 2021, a suspect named Altariq Thomas was arrested and charged with murder, conspiracy, and weapons offenses in connection with Patterson’s death. Thomas later appeared in an Essex County courtroom and pleaded not guilty to those charges.

Did anyone in the Irvington area see or hear anything on the night of July 8 that could help investigators?