Da’quan Montague, 21, was fatally shot in Atlantic City on the late morning of March 12, 2018. The shooting occurred just after 11 a.m. in the first block of North Delaware Avenue near a business called AC Linen. The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed his death was due to a gunshot wound and recorded it as Atlantic City’s first homicide of 2018.

Family and friends remembered Montague as kind, respectful and helpful, with a bright personality and an eye-catching smile. He had been actively seeking work and was speaking with mentors about job opportunities shortly before he was killed; those who knew him described him as soft-spoken and trying to get his life on track.

The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office and Atlantic City Police Department arrested 30-year-old Howard Cassell of Atlantic City; he was indicted on reckless manslaughter and weapons charges in connection with the shooting. A second man, 23-year-old Tajai Hicks–Anderson of Atlantic City, was charged with third-degree aggravated assault related to the incident. Did anyone in the community have contact with Da’quan or information about the shooting?