Agustin Orlando Pichardo, 51, was fatally shot on Saturday, April 17, 2021, in Newark, New Jersey. He and a relative were doing maintenance at a property he owned on the 100 block of 7th Street when a man allegedly attempted to rob them at gunpoint. Pichardo was shot during the attempted armed robbery and was taken to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:13 p.m. that afternoon.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, with detectives from the Newark Police Department, investigated the killing. That investigation led to the arrest of 26-year-old Marquise Smith of Newark; he was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, conspiracy to commit murder, and felony murder and was being held at the Essex County Correctional Facility.

Anyone who witnessed the incident on 7th Street or has information about the shooting is asked to come forward.