Nineteen-year-old Diquese Young of Camden, New Jersey, died after a gunshot to the head sustained on October 14, 2018. Young, a standout on the football and track teams and Woodrow Wilson High School’s 2018 homecoming king, was in a residence on the 2500 block of Baird Boulevard with two acquaintances, 19-year-old Nasir Mason and 20-year-old Morton Newman, when the shooting occurred. He was taken to the MD Anderson Cancer Center by Newman and his brother, then transferred to Cooper University Hospital, where he died on October 16, 2018.

Early accounts said Young shot himself while playing Russian roulette, but investigators later described a different sequence: the revolver allegedly jammed, Mason held the bottom of the gun while Newman held the hammer back, and the hammer slipped forward as Mason pulled the trigger, firing the fatal shot. An autopsy ruled the death a homicide. Mason and Newman were charged with aggravated manslaughter; Mason also faced a weapons-related charge and both were held at the Camden County Correctional Facility pending further proceedings.

If anyone knew Diquese or was in the area that night, please share information that could clarify what happened.