Wisguen Marc, a 25-year-old Black man born in Haiti, was fatally shot on the night of November 20, 2020, on the 100 block of Main Street in Orange, New Jersey. Friends and family remember him as a jokester who enjoyed making people laugh and playing games with his siblings; he was a high school graduate and the father of a son named Mason.

Officers responded to reports of gunfire around 9:15 p.m. and found Marc with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was transported to University Hospital in Newark and pronounced dead at 9:53 p.m. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and the Orange Police Department handled the investigation. Surveillance video was reported to show a man confronting Marc, brandishing a handgun, and then shooting him once in the back.

A suspect was identified and arrested: Marcus Wright, 34, of Newark, was charged with Marc’s murder. If anyone knew Wisguen Marc, his routines, or saw activity on Main Street that night, please share what was seen.