John A. Sosa, 48, of Roselle, New Jersey, was killed after being kidnapped and shot behind an apartment building on Brunswick Street in Newark on July 5, 2018. Officers responded to reports of gunfire and found Sosa unresponsive; medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Homicide Task Force, working with Newark detectives, identified 31-year-old Antwan Malone of Hillside as the person allegedly responsible. Malone was arrested at a Hillside residence by the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force with help from Hillside Police and the Union County Sheriff’s Office and was charged with first-degree murder, felony murder, kidnapping, conspiracy and multiple weapons offenses. He was held at the Essex County Correctional Facility pending court proceedings. The motive and full circumstances of the kidnapping have not been disclosed.

Anyone with information about Sosa’s killing is asked to contact the investigators handling the case.