On the afternoon of June 18, 2019, gunfire erupted in the 700 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard in Newark at about 4:47 p.m. Twenty-nine-year-old John Warren of East Orange was killed in that initial barrage; four other people struck there survived: a 58-year-old woman, a 56-year-old woman, a 25-year-old man, and a 20-year-old man.

Investigators from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and the Newark Police Department treated the scene as part of an active homicide investigation. Authorities also looked into a possible connection with a second shooting about five minutes later in the 200 block of South Orange Avenue, where a 57-year-old man and a 23-year-old man were wounded but not critically.

Officials publicly appealed for information, and as of the last update there have been no announced arrests or identified suspects in Warren’s death. Does anyone have information that could help bring answers to his family and the community?