Michael Phillip Wyche was 30 when he was shot in the parking lot of the New Community Corporation Housing Complex on Hayes Street in Newark on the afternoon of Friday, March 27, 2020. Emergency services arrived about 1:24 p.m.; Wyche was taken to University Hospital and pronounced dead at 1:51 p.m. Another man was shot in the same incident and survived.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force led the investigation with Newark Police assistance. That inquiry produced four arrests. On May 5 a 22-year-old correctional police officer, Al-Fatin Grant of Newark, was arrested and suspended from his New Jersey Department of Corrections post; he was charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and hindering apprehension. On May 29, 32-year-old Scott Banks of Irvington was arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and several weapons-related counts plus eluding. The next day Trevon Ellis, 27, and Ahmad Fields, 31, both of Newark, were arrested on conspiracy to commit murder charges after search warrants were executed in Newark and Irvington.

Are there readers who knew Michael Wyche or who saw anything in the Hayes Street area that afternoon?