Hassan Reeds, 46, was fatally shot in Newark, New Jersey, shortly before 5:30 p.m. on June 10, 2019. The shooting occurred in the South Ward on the 400 block of Chancellor Avenue, near Weequahic High School. Police found Reeds with a gunshot wound to the head and he died after being taken to University Hospital.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office is handling the investigation. Reeds had a prior encounter with the law: in 2005 he was charged in the shooting death of Newark Special Police Officer Dwayne Reeves near Weequahic High School, and in 2007 a jury acquitted him of murder but convicted him of receiving stolen property, a conviction that carried a ten-year sentence.

Anyone with information about Reeds’s killing is asked to contact the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force.