On the evening of May 7, 2019, Maurice Rowe, a 30-year-old man from Trenton, was fatally shot on Hoffman Avenue. Just after 6 p.m., while he stood near the corner of Stuyvesant and Hoffman avenues, gunfire erupted. Rowe was shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at the scene.

A nearby Trenton Police Street Crimes Unit responding to an unrelated call heard the shots. Detectives reported seeing a large group at the corner and observed a man later identified as Hamilton Morgan fleeing with a gun. Officers pursued him on foot down an alley and took him into custody on Ellsworth Avenue, recovering a handgun and an additional loaded magazine on his person.

If anyone witnessed the shooting, saw Rowe that evening, or has information about what happened at Stuyvesant and Hoffman avenues, please come forward.