Kamal McCord, a 19-year-old Black man from Jersey City, was shot and killed on the night of May 2, 2018, after gunfire rang out along Merseles Court. Around 9:50 p.m. police were called and found McCord inside a residence at 21 Merseles Court, unresponsive with a gunshot wound to his torso; he was pronounced dead at the scene about 10:00 p.m. The regional medical examiner ruled his death a homicide from a gunshot wound to the chest.

Officers also found another person wounded near 17 Merseles Court, underscoring how sudden and chaotic the attack was in that residential block. McCord is remembered in obituaries and memorials as a loving son to Terry McCord and Tracy Simmons, a brother to Rashee, Jeremy, Tyrone, and Traci Simmons, and a grandson of Dorothy Henderson and Minnie Milteer; tributes described him as gentle, kind, and easy to be around, and noted he had worked at UPS.

What can anyone who was on or near Merseles Court that night add about what happened?