On the evening of August 31, 2020, 23-year-old Leroy Alphonso Hayes was fatally shot on the 200 block of Pond Place in Plainfield, New Jersey. A Plainfield High School graduate who lived in the city where he was born and raised, Hayes was killed when a burst of gunfire shattered the neighborhood’s late summer quiet.

The same night saw another shooting elsewhere in the city that wounded two men; an arrest was made in that non-fatal incident, but no public information has been released tying anyone to Hayes’s death. In the days after the homicide, Union County Crime Stoppers announced a reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment in the case.

Who in the community might have seen or heard something on Pond Place that night and can help bring answers to Hayes’s family?