Archie C. Crooks, a 39-year-old Black man, was fatally shot the afternoon of September 5, 2018, on the 100 block of Evergreen Place in East Orange, New Jersey, near the Ramada Hotel. Officers arrived about 5:20 p.m. and found Crooks unresponsive inside a parked vehicle; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police followed a Nissan Altima leaving the area into Newark and arrested the driver, 39-year-old Dwayne Little-John of Newark. Little-John was charged with conspiracy to commit murder and eluding police and held at the Essex County Correctional Facility pending court. The Essex County Prosecutor’s Homicide Task Force is handling the investigation and has described the shooting as an isolated incident; the investigation remains active.

If anyone has information about Crooks, the events on Evergreen Place that afternoon, or the Nissan Altima seen leaving the scene, please share what is known.