Niles L. Mayo was 47 when he was shot on a Newark street in the early hours of April 9, 2019. The shooting occurred at approximately 2:27 a.m. in the 700 block of 20th Street. Emergency responders took him to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:06 a.m.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and the Newark Public Safety Department treated the incident as a homicide and opened an investigation. In the years since, investigators have kept the case active, but no arrests have been announced and no suspects have been publicly identified. Friends knew him by the nickname L Dogg.

Did anyone in the Newark community have contact with Niles Mayo or information about the night of April 9, 2019?