On the night of October 26, 2018, gunfire broke out near 76 Brinkerhoff Street in Jersey City. Officers who arrived just before 11:35 p.m. found 17-year-old Lincoln High School student Jade Saunders unresponsive with an apparent gunshot wound to her upper body; she was pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of death was a gunshot wound and the manner of death was ruled a homicide.

The shooting wounded multiple others. A 26-year-old man suffered a gunshot injury to a lower extremity and was taken to Jersey City Medical Center. Two 19-year-old men from Jersey City were later identified as having been injured as well — one with a graze wound to the torso and another with a gunshot wound to an upper extremity — though they had not remained at the scene.

Two Jersey City men, Alterik Ellis, 25, and Travis Defoe, 28, were arrested on November 5, 2018, and charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, three counts of aggravated assault, weapons offenses, and related charges. Does anyone have information about Jade, her movements that night, or witnesses who were in the Brinkerhoff Street area?