On the evening of July 17, 2020, 37-year-old Luis X. Gonzalez was shot outside his home on South Broad Street in Trenton, New Jersey. He stepped outside while on his cell phone just before 9 p.m.; neighbors reported gunfire and police found Gonzalez in the street with multiple gunshot wounds to his torso. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead a short time later.

Investigators tied the killing to a domestic dispute that occurred earlier that day in Hamilton. Detectives say Michael Owens, then 29, had assaulted his girlfriend after finding out she was in contact with Gonzalez and had taken her cell phone and vehicle. Authorities allege Owens used the stolen phone to lure Gonzalez outside; surveillance captured a vehicle matching the stolen car at the scene and a man matching Owens’ description firing from the vehicle. 380 caliber casings recovered at the scene were also cited by the Mercer County Homicide Task Force.

Owens was arrested and indicted in July 2021 on first-degree murder and weapons charges, and was later convicted of Gonzalez’s murder in August 2022. The case continued to move through the courts. Did anyone in Trenton see the vehicle or the shooting that night who hasn’t yet spoken to investigators?