David Perez was 19 when he was shot in Plainfield, New Jersey, on Sunday, April 28, 2019. Police responded at about 4:10 p.m. to reports of a shooting near West Fourth Street and Monroe Avenue and found Perez suffering from gunshot wounds. He was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick and pronounced dead a little over an hour later.

The Union County Prosecutor’s Office and the Plainfield Police Division treated the case as a homicide and conducted a collaborative investigation. Less than two weeks after the killing, authorities identified an 18-year-old from North Plainfield, Samir Crews, as the alleged perpetrator. Crews was located and arrested in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, by the Union County Homicide Task Force and the U.S. Marshals Service on May 8, 2019, and charged with murder and weapons offenses; he awaited extradition back to New Jersey.

What information do readers have about Perez’s life, movements that afternoon, or the area around West Fourth Street and Monroe Avenue?