Nineteen-year-old Bryan Vargas of Paterson, New Jersey, was found with multiple gunshot wounds next to a parked vehicle on Jefferson Street the evening of December 22, 2020. He was taken to Saint Joseph’s University Medical Center in critical condition and died there on December 23, 2020.

The shooting was reported at about 5:24 p.m. near the intersection of Jefferson Street and Garfield Avenue. The Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office and the Paterson Police Department secured the area as a crime scene and opened an investigation. In the days and weeks afterward investigators asked the public for information, but no arrests have been announced and no suspects have been publicly identified.

The investigation remains active and the circumstances that led to Vargas’s death have not been resolved. If anyone has information about what happened on Jefferson Street that evening, please come forward to investigators.