Patrick Shukla was 26 when he was found fatally shot in the parking lot of the Country Inn & Suites by Radisson on International Boulevard in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Officers responded just before midnight on November 6, 2020; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Union County Prosecutor’s Office, the Elizabeth Police Department, the Union County Sheriff’s Office Crime Scene Unit and the Union County Police Department Ballistics Unit opened a homicide investigation.

During Shukla’s funeral at Masjid Dar-Ul Islam on Salem Avenue, masked individuals reportedly arrived and fired shots toward mourners. No injuries were reported from that incident, and investigators opened a separate probe into the shooting at the mosque; authorities did not immediately confirm any direct link between that event and Shukla’s murder.

Public appeals were made for information, and the Union County Homicide Task Force continued the investigation. Does anyone who knew Patrick or who was in Elizabeth on or around November 6, 2020 have information that could help investigators?