Janell Johnson, 25, was shot in the early hours of August 7, 2018, on the 900 block of Franklin Avenue in Newark’s Stephen Crane Village Housing Complex. Responders found her with a gunshot wound and she was taken to University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 12:54 a.m. She lived in nearby Belleville.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force and Newark Police detectives opened an investigation and asked the public for help. No arrests have been announced and no suspect identity has been reported, leaving the case unresolved for Johnson’s family and the community.

If anyone has information about that night or knew Janell, please come forward to investigators.