On the night of July 4, 2021, a Fourth of July gathering on Montrose Terrace in Irvington, New Jersey, was broken up by gunfire that left two brothers dead. Malik McCallister, 38, was taken to Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and pronounced dead at 12:30 a.m. His older brother, 42-year-old Tarik R. Barnes, died at University Hospital in Newark at 2:09 a.m. Both lived together in Rahway.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and the Irvington Police Department opened a homicide investigation. In late August authorities and the Essex County Sheriff’s Crime Stoppers Program offered a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction, but no arrests or identified suspects have been publicly announced and the motive remains unresolved.

If anyone witnessed the shooting on Montrose Terrace that night or has information about either man’s movements, please share what is known with investigators.