On the evening of May 22, 2019, 18-year-old Taquan Tae Ellerbe was shot and killed on Bellevue Avenue in Trenton, New Jersey. Police responded to several 911 calls and a Shot Spotter alert around 5:30 p.m. and found Ellerbe behind a residence at 80 Bellevue Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Investigators from the Mercer County Homicide Task Force and the Trenton Police Department say two people drove down Bellevue Avenue in a blue Buick Park Avenue with a temporary registration tag. When Ellerbe exited a residence, the passenger opened fire. The Buick was later found abandoned in Bessemer Alley with a gunshot hole in the rear windshield and shattered glass matching the crime scene. In November 2020 authorities charged 20-year-old Bryant Coon and an 18-year-old male with first-degree murder and related weapons and conspiracy counts; the younger defendant’s name was withheld because he was a juvenile at the time of the killing. The identification followed paperwork and cell phones recovered from the abandoned vehicle, and one phone contained photos linking the two men and depicting firearms.

Did anyone in the area see the blue Buick or notice activity around 80 Bellevue Avenue that evening?