Seventeen-year-old Zaimier Bell was killed in Jersey City on the evening of March 21, 2021. Police answered reports of gunfire near Martin Luther King Drive and Woodlawn Avenue shortly after 5:30 p.m. and found Bell with gunshot wounds to his upper body. He was taken to Jersey City Medical Center and was pronounced dead at about 6:10 p.m.

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit and the Jersey City Police Department opened an active investigation and initially asked the public for help. A suspect was later identified and tried; on December 5, 2023, a jury convicted 22-year-old Jalen Culver of manslaughter, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and unlawful possession of a weapon, while acquitting him of aggravated manslaughter. Culver’s sentencing was set for January 19, 2024.

If anyone has information about Bell, his movements that evening, or witnessed activity near Martin Luther King Drive and Woodlawn Avenue around 5:30 p.m. on March 21, 2021, please come forward.