On April 5, 2020, Debree Brannon, a 30-year-old Black man from Trenton, New Jersey, was found dead in the backyard of a residence on the 400 block of Garfield Avenue after a drive-by shooting that evening. That night’s violence unfolded across the city: earlier mass gunfire at Martin Luther King Park and a later shooting on Hoffman Avenue left two other people dead and several wounded. Brannon’s name appears on victim lists as Debree, though many law-enforcement and media accounts spelled it Dabree when formally identifying him.

According to investigators, a vehicle rolled down Garfield Avenue around 9 p.m. and fired multiple rounds into a group of people outside; three wounded survivors were taken to hospital and Brannon was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds and pronounced dead at the scene. The Mercer County Homicide Task Force, the Mercer County Shooting Response Team, and the Trenton Police Department opened investigations. Public statements at the time said no arrests had been made in connection with the Garfield Avenue shooting.

Anyone with information about who was in the vehicle that fired on Garfield Avenue or about Brannon’s movements that night is asked to come forward.