On the afternoon of May 8, 2019, 31-year-old Timothy Tyreek Melendez was shot in the 200 block of North Grove Street in East Orange, New Jersey. The shooting happened about 1:15 p.m.; emergency crews found Melendez with a gunshot wound to the chest and transported him to University Hospital in Newark. He died at 9:11 p.m. that evening, roughly eight hours after the shooting.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and East Orange Police detectives opened an immediate investigation and asked the public for help. In the days and weeks afterward investigators continued to work the case, but no arrests were announced and no suspects were publicly identified. The community has been left waiting for answers as the investigation remains active.

If anyone has information about what happened to Timothy Tyreek Melendez on May 8, 2019, please share what you know with investigators.