A house party on the 500 block of West 5th Street in Palmyra, New Jersey, ended in tragedy when 19-year-old Jonte Rice of Willingboro was shot on the night of October 11, 2019. Shots rang out about 11:15 p.m.; officers found Rice with multiple gunshot wounds and he was taken to Cooper University Medical Center in Camden, where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy was scheduled with the Burlington County Medical Examiner.

The Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office and the Palmyra Borough Police Department launched the investigation and described the shooting as an isolated incident that posed no ongoing threat to the public. No arrests had been made in the months afterward; in May 2020 the prosecutor’s office offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. The case remains unsolved and active.

If anyone who attended that party or who has information about the shooting can help, please come forward with what you know.