On the evening of November 25, 2020, 58-year-old Diane Jackson, a Black / African American woman, was found on the sidewalk in front of 297 Van Houten Street in Paterson, New Jersey. Officers responding to a report of shots fired discovered Jackson at about 9:22 p.m.; she had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office and the Paterson Police Department opened a joint investigation and are treating the death as a homicide.

If anyone has information about sightings, witnesses, or other details from that night, please share them with the investigators handling the case.