On the afternoon of December 10, 2020, 35-year-old Jersey City resident Niles Holmes was shot near the intersection of Martin Luther King Drive and Wilkinson Avenue. First responders found him unconscious with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body; he was taken to Jersey City Medical Center and pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m. The cause of death was determined to be homicide by gunshot wounds.

A 24-year-old man was found nearby with two graze wounds to his arm and was treated at the same hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit and the Jersey City Police Department opened an investigation into the shooting.

On December 24, authorities arrested a 13-year-old girl in the area of Union Street and Martin Luther King Drive and charged her as a juvenile with murder, aggravated assault, and multiple weapons offenses. The relationship, if any, between the suspect and Holmes has not been disclosed. Does anyone have information about Holmes or the events near Martin Luther King Drive and Wilkinson Avenue that afternoon?