On May 2, 2021, gunfire broke out at the corner of West Eighth Street and Grant Avenue in Plainfield, New Jersey, wounding two men. Michael Price Jr., 29, of Dunellen and a Plainfield native, was rushed to JFK University Medical Center in Edison and was pronounced dead just after 6 p.m. A second man, 30, from Piscataway was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick in critical but stable condition.

The Union County Homicide Task Force led the investigation with the Plainfield Police Department, the Union County Police Department Ballistics Unit, and the Union County Sheriff’s Office Crime Scene Unit. Authorities have asked the public for help.

If anyone has information about what happened at West Eighth and Grant on May 2, 2021, please come forward and share what you know.