On the evening of April 6, 2020, 23-year-old Javone Smith of Jersey City was shot near the intersection of Martin Luther King Drive and Myrtle Avenue. Police found him with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body; he was taken to Jersey City Medical Center and pronounced dead at 6:49 p.m. The medical examiner ruled the cause of death to be multiple gunshot wounds.

The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide Unit investigated the killing. On April 14, 2020, 27-year-old Kenyowa Pinkney of Jersey City turned himself in and was arrested and charged with murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose in connection with Smith’s death. Pinkney later pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of aggravated manslaughter on April 25, 2022, and was sentenced on July 1, 2022, to 25 years in New Jersey State Prison under the No Early Release Act.

Does anyone have information about Javone’s life in Jersey City or the area around Martin Luther King Drive and Myrtle Avenue that could shed light on what happened that evening?