On the afternoon of February 3, 2021, 29-year-old Johanna Cordova Salazar was shot and killed near Lee Place and South Second Street in Plainfield, New Jersey. Plainfield patrol units found her and a male victim with gunshot wounds at about 4:15 p.m.; emergency responders pronounced Johanna dead at the scene while the man was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick.

The Union County Homicide Task Force led the investigation with help from the Plainfield Police Division, the Union County Police Department Ballistics Unit, and the Union County Sheriff’s Office Crime Scene Unit. Investigators said early on they did not believe either victim had been the intended target, suggesting both may have been bystanders. No arrests or suspect identifications have been publicly announced.

Anyone who was in the Lee Place and South Second Street area that afternoon or has information about the shooting is asked to come forward.