In the early morning hours of January 24, 2019, William Johenkins, a 45-year-old Black man, was found inside a silver minivan parked on the first block of Hanford Place in Trenton. He had been shot in the face and was pronounced dead at the scene after authorities responded to a report of a man shot in the head shortly before 12:45 a.m. This was the city’s first homicide of 2019.

The Mercer County Homicide Task Force and the Trenton Police Department investigated. In December 2019, authorities arrested 37-year-old Andreas Crews in Burlington Township in connection with the killing. A Mercer County grand jury returned a three-count indictment in February 2020 charging Crews with first-degree murder, second-degree possession of a firearm for an unlawful purpose, and second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon. Crews was held in the Mercer County Correction Center.

Did anyone in Trenton around Hanford Place that night see or hear anything that could help explain what happened?