On the evening of March 17, 2019, 18-year-old Deante Barr was shot inside a Chinese restaurant on the 900 block of South Orange Avenue in Newark, New Jersey. He was taken to University Hospital but died later that night. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and Newark Police opened a homicide investigation and detectives from the Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force took the lead.

In the days after the shooting authorities released a photograph of a man described as a person of interest and asked the public for help identifying him. No arrest or named suspect has been announced and the motive has not been made public. The case remains an active investigation.

If anyone has information about Deante Barr, the shooting that night, or the person in the released photo, please share what is known with investigators.