Nineteen-year-old Carlos Francisco Rodriguez, a Hispanic male, was found shot on a sidewalk in the 500 block of East Jersey Street in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on the evening of July 6, 2019. Officers discovered him with a gunshot wound around 7 p.m.; he was taken to University Hospital in Newark and pronounced dead the next day, July 7, 2019.

The Union County Homicide Task Force and the Elizabeth Police Department led an investigation that identified Anthony Reciofigeroa of Jersey City as the primary suspect. Investigators say he drove to Elizabeth in a black Chevy Malibu with Vermont plates about thirty minutes before the shooting and fled to Vermont afterward; he was found and arrested there nearly two months later on unrelated drug and gun charges. Prosecutors relied on witness testimony, video surveillance, and physical evidence.

After a three-week trial a jury convicted Reciofigeroa of first-degree murder and two second-degree firearms offenses in June 2022, and he received a 55-year state prison sentence in October 2022. An appellate court ruling in March 2025 determined he was improperly identified at trial and granted a new trial. Does anyone have information about Carlos Rodriguez, his movements that evening, or the area around East Jersey Street on July 6, 2019?