Michael Welsh, 34, was killed just before 1 a.m. on June 24, 2018, near the intersection of New and West 5th streets in Plainfield, New Jersey. ShotSpotter alerted patrol units; officers found Welsh and a 25-year-old woman from Scotch Plains both with gunshot wounds. Both were taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where Welsh was pronounced dead about an hour after the shooting. The woman was hospitalized in critical condition.

The shooting was investigated as a homicide by the Union County Homicide Task Force with assistance from the Plainfield Police Division, the Union County Sheriff’s Office Crime Scene Unit and the Union County Police Department Ballistics Unit. Union County Crime Stoppers offered up to a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and indictment. There have been no public announcements of arrests or identified suspects in the case.

Did anyone in the Plainfield or Scotch Plains area see or hear anything that night that could help investigators?