On the evening of Friday, December 21, 2018, gunfire on the 40s block of Brunswick Street in Newark left 53-year-old Maryann Matthews mortally wounded. Police were called about 7:10 p.m.; officers found Matthews with a gunshot wound to the face and she was taken to University Hospital, where she died a short time later.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office opened an active investigation. In the days after the shooting officials said the probe remained in its early stages and the motive was unknown. No information about arrests or identified suspects has been released.

Did anyone in the area that night see or hear something that could help explain what happened to Maryann Matthews?